 | Canada - 1921 - 552 pages
...enough; but the angel uses us like devils, and the rising sun refuses us light to go to bed by." 17. "No society can surely be flourishing and happy of...greater part of the members are poor and miserable." 18. "I am not going to be a tarry pirate for nothing, nor yet to hang in chains if I can help it."... | |
 | Richard H. Mulliner - Success - 1920 - 396 pages
...extraordinary circumstances — try to use ordinary situations. — Richter. SOCIETY No society can be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. — Adam Smith. We are not, by ourselves, sufficient to furnish ourselves with competent stores for... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - Economics - 1927 - 468 pages
...persuasively : " What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing...greater part of the members are poor and miserable " (vol. i, p. 80). Wageearners are the most numerous income-receiving class, so that an increase of... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - Business & Economics - 1964 - 480 pages
...greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be nourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members...miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people should have such a share of the produce of their own... | |
 | John Dobson - Business & Economics - 1997 - 208 pages
...economic gain as an essential ingredient for the efficient allocation of resources, he also observed that "no society can surely be flourishing and happy, of...which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."6* Smith's invisible hand, therefore, was both a moral and an economic concept. Rather than... | |
 | Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - Philosophy - 1997 - 254 pages
...products and 4% of GDP. Loss-making public sectors Liberty Classics, Indianapolis, 1981, pp. 96-7. "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members [servants, labourers, and workmen] are poor miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed,... | |
 | Charles L. Griswold - Philosophy - 1999 - 430 pages
...supporting your view of the matter? The conversation would unfold from there. 4. DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of...miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own... | |
 | William Roth - Business & Economics - 1999 - 236 pages
...Smith's logic concerning the distribution of wages further demonstrated his end objective. He said that: No society can surely be flourishing and happy of...part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equality besides that they who feed, cloathe, and lodge the [population], should have such a share... | |
 | Thomas A. Spragens - Philosophy - 1999 - 300 pages
...nature nor the poverty that afflicts primitive economies. Dependency on things, too, can be degrading. "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of...greater part of the members are poor and miserable," he wrote.21 And poverty and misery are what static economies tend to create. Moreover, in the static... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - Philosophy - 1999 - 351 pages
...up part, but not the whole, of happiness. When we now turn to WN and read that "[n]o society can ... be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable" (I.viii.36), we should hesitate more than a little before reading utilitarian content into this claim.... | |
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But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. 
