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3 unusual facts about Adam Ferguson


Max Otte

Adam Ferguson: Das Ende des Geldes - Hyperinflation und ihre Folgen am Beispiel der Weimarer Republik. FinanzBuch-Verlag, München 2011, ISBN 978-3-89879-627-9

Sciennes

Nearby is the remaining part of Sciennes Hill House, once the home of Adam Ferguson, who hosted a dinner there where Robert Burns and the young Walter Scott met for the one and only time in the winter of 1786-87.

Spontaneous order

In 1767, the sociologist and historian Adam Ferguson described the phenomenon of spontaneous order in society as the "result of human action, but not the execution of any human design".



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