...just economic but personal well-being, urged governments to help their needy: "They who feed, cloathe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have...themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged." Paine used his experience as a tax man to show how inexpensive such a welfare system could be, and...

...part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have...own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged. (1776, p. 96, emphasis added) He also claimed (pp. 91, 96) that the rate of labourers'...

...wrote: "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that...to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged."10 Still, liberalism is not a synonym for humanitarianism. As Paul Starr notes, liberals demand...

...OECD, 1997). 442 18 Social Democracy as a Development Strategy Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein "It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath...themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged." -Adam Smith 1776 "One has to understand that the ongoing crisis is not a crisis of real poverty, but...

...But he also concentrates on them for reasons of justice. "It is but equity, besides," he maintains, "that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body...themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged" ( WN I.viii.36, 96). The "wealth of nations" that Smith refers to in the title of his most famous work,...