Of Strawberries and Buttons

Gavin Kennedy ()

Chapter 46 in Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy, 2005, pp 188-193 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Smith’s political economy is a study in contrast. A natural mechanism, operating under impartial competition and the total absence of monopoly, in the long run produces opulence beneficial to all mankind.1 In contrast, imperfect people populate a real world, where private monopolistic interests interfere in the natural order to produce above-optimal results for themselves and sub-optimal results for customers. Essentially, the contrast between what an economy could be and what it was in practice, informed his critique of a commercial society lumbered with the policy distortions of mercantile politics and the spirit of monopoly.

Keywords: Expected Profit; Street Market; Strawberry Production; Simple Supply; Policy Distortion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230511194_46

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