Smith’s Immodest Proposals for Public Expenditures

Gavin Kennedy ()

Chapter 53 in Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy, 2005, pp 219-223 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Justice is an essential pillar of society. Its expense has to be provided for either by the litigants or by the state from taxation. Where the officers of justice raise revenue for their recompense it leads to corruption (whoever has the largest ‘present’ for the judge had the best chance of wining the case)1 and where it is dispensed free of charge, differential payments to lawyers and advisors necessarily imbalances the chances of success in favour of the hirers of the most talented (i.e., expensive) adversarial advocacy. Justice was the State’s second duty.

Keywords: Public Expenditure; Penal Colony; East India Company; Differential Payment; Provincial Administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51119-4_53

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230511194

DOI: 10.1057/9780230511194_53

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().