On the Division of Labor Karl Marx and Adam Smith both realized that there have been benefits to the division of labor, but Marx believes that through strict specialization, a person is being individually hurt by being devoid of greater experiences. ... Smith notes in his "Wealth of Nations" that the division of labor betters society. ... Smith states the now famous example of the pin makers. ... Smith makes his example very specific in explaining that each person does one job and only one job. ... Just as Smith said, their minds will deteriorate. ...

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Classical Economics and Industrialization School of Economics thought was begun at the late eighteen century with Adam Smith. Adam Smith had set many concepts and principles of classical economics in Britain. ... Smith argued that free competition and free trade. Also Smith introduced the labor theory of value and theory of distribution, later these ideas were taken up by Ricardo. Smith was well aware of the important of capital investment, and so as Malthus did. ...

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Several key people such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, and Karl Marx influenced the field of economics. If the development of economics were put on a timeline, it started around 1730 with Adam Smith and the Physiocratic School of Economic Theory with the belief that a nation's wealth was correlated with the value of land agriculture. ... During this time, he came across a work of Adam Smith called The Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith's work inspired him to study economics for ten years and write many of his own works. ... The second difference is that Ricardo strongly cor...

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Adam Smith, whose ideas communism was loosely based on, claimed that "if individuals freely followed their own self-interest, the world would be an orderly and progressive place ("An Age of Reforms" 647)." ...

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