The State, The Market and Economic Development: A Second Look at Adam Smith in Theory and Practice

Arthur A. Goldsmith

Development and Change, 1995, vol. 26, issue 4, 633-650

Abstract: This article looks at the place of government in the development of market economies. Using ideas from Adam Smith, and illustrations from Anglo‐American economic history, it shows how government was deeply involved in creating the conditions for capitalism and in moulding a sustaining environment for private enterprise. Despite the claims of contemporary laissez‐faire ideology to the contrary, the emergence and the maintenance of a capitalist economic system always depend, at least in part, on an effective state.

Date: 1995
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