Поставьте глаголы в скобках в нужную видовременную форму и укажите эту форму и залог; переведите предложение на русский язык:
a) Economics first (to consider) as a branch of domestic science.
b) In 1776 Adam Smith (to publish) the first edition of his monumental Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, and economics soon (to become) an independent science.