So, what have the Scots ever done for us? Misappropriated as the philosophical father of our money, money, money culture, the absent-minded Scottish Enlightenment philosopher spent a decade writing The Wealth of Nations.
He studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford – and considered the teaching at the former superior. Bank of England Sir Mervyn King has Sir William Paterson to thank for the second-oldest central bank in the world.
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