How Did Adam Smith Contribute To The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment was a time period which featured a new generation of intellectuals who formed new political, educational, philosophical and economical ideas which used reason instead of religion and changed history. Adam Smith, the father of modern economics and the father of capitalism, was the most influential Enlightenment thinker as his book “The Wealth of Nations” made a substantial impact on the modern day economy. Adam Smith focused on economics and He established economics to be its very own important topic and he was the first philosopher to focus on economics in society. Smith also argued that people working to earn money not only benefited themselves, but also the society as a whole. Furthermore, charity was an important act but that a society should not depend on it.
"The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection under the