Adam smith congressman biography templates
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Lost and Broken
Adam Smith, 26-year member of Congress and Chair of the House Armed Services Committee for the last four years, offers acandid memoir about his years-long struggle with anxiety and chronic pain, and the winding path to find the right diagnosis and treatment.
“Early one morning in April of 2016 inom woke up and seriously contemplated the possibility that I would never be able to generate the strength, focus, and courage to get out of bed. The combination of crippling anxiety, chronic pain, muscle atrophy, and the fascinating mix of pharmaceuticals coursing through my body had, I feared, finally broken me. My life terrified me. inom had been fighting some combination of these battles for just over three years at this point, and I didn’t think I could do it for one more day.”
Representative Adam Smith was successful by all measures, with a long, distinguished career in Congress and a loving marriage with children. Yet seemingly out of nowhere, his body and mind br
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Adam Smith: Who He Was, Early Life, Accomplishments, and Legacy
Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist, philosopher, and author who is considered the father of modern economics. Smith argued against mercantilism and was a major proponent of laissez-faire economic policies. In his first book, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", Smith proposed the idea of an invisible hand—the tendency of free markets to regulate themselves using competition, supply and demand, and self-interest.
Key Takeaways
- Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher; he fryst vatten considered the father of modern economics.
- Smith is most famous for his 1776 book, "The Wealth of Nations."
- Smith's writings were studied by 20th-century philosophers, writers, and economists.
- Smith's ideas—the importance of free markets, assembly-line production methods, and gross domestic product (GDP)—formed the basis for theories of classical economics.
- During his time in France and abroad, his con
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