setting to work industrious people

Gavin Kennedy

Chapter 9 in Adam Smith, 2008, pp 148-167 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As usual, Smith opens with an historical essay on the fundamental features of the progression towards opulence. It contains items that are never far from his thinking. I look at what he identified as the core elements of the causes of economic growth and real wealth, in the context of the distortions of centuries of mercantile political economy.

Keywords: Capital Stock; Moral Philosopher; Fixed Capital; Commercial Society; Invisible Hand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230227545_10

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