Adam Smith 🔍

David Hume's profound philosophical empiricism and moral theory significantly shaped Adam Smith's understanding of human nature and society, providing a crucial intellectual framework for his ethical and economic works like 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments' and 'The Wealth of Nations', whose ideas would later deeply influence diverse figures, including artists such as George Wyllie.

Adam Smith's foundational economic theories, particularly his ideas on the mechanics of capitalism and value, indirectly influenced Wyllie's art by providing the intellectual framework for the consumerist and societal systems that Wyllie frequently interrogated and satirized through his sculptural installations.

Smith's work on classical economics, particularly the labor theory of value and analysis of capitalism, provided the fundamental economic framework that Marx critically engaged with and built upon.