Adam Smith or Ibn Khaldun - The Father of Modern Economics?

Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations in 1776 and is now crowned as the father of modern of economics, but Ibn Khaldun wrote the Muqaddimah some 400 years earlier in 1377... Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Credit: Ibn Khaldun Bust: Reda Kerbouche https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bust_of_Ibn_Khaldun_(Casbah_of_Bejaia,_Algeria)_1.jpg This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) Music: Clean Soul Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/