re: #218 EmmmieG

As I was GOING to add before my hand so rudely twitched and submitted that before I was ready:

The Wealth of Nations came out in 1776. What a piece of irony. Or not. Smith was part of the Scottish Enlightenment, which influenced the American political scene enormously.

You made me go and check… How about this. Smith came up with the idea first, but Volterra came up with the math first.