He attended Glasgow University for three years and later on went to Balliol College, Oxford for the next six years of his life. ... The essential message of the book was that man's self-interest would promote the economic well being of all. ... Smith is most widely known for using his metaphor of the invisible hand. ... Smith stated, "He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand, to promote an end which was no part of his own intention. ... He says man is continually in need of the assistance of others and must fall upon some means to ...

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