NT2573 : Statue of Adam Smith, The Royal Mile
taken 13 years ago, near to Edinburgh, Scotland
The Royal Mile is 1 Scottish Mile long (1.1 imperial miles). It is a number of streets that lead down from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood Palace. The royal mile is the heart of Edinburgh Old Town and contains many of the city's important buildings. The mile follows the "tail" of the Edinburgh Crag and tail a feature created by glacial erosion.
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Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, usually abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations. It is considered the first modern work of economics. It earned him an enormous reputation and would become one of the most influential works on economics ever published. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics and capitalism.