 | Drucilla K. Barker, Edith Kuiper - Business & Economics - 2003 - 370 pages
...beyond the first generation" (ibid.: 68). To this practical argument, Smith oftered an ethical one: 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... | |
 | Kenneth S. Friedman - Business & Economics - 2003 - 276 pages
...other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.. ..No society can surely be flourishing and happy,...poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides....") Still, the free market system appears to fit the value neutrality espoused by contemporary economists.... | |
 | Kenneth S. Friedman - Business & Economics - 2003 - 276 pages
...people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind....No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which...poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides....") Still, the free market system appears to fit the value neutrality espoused by contemporary economists.... | |
 | Business & Economics - 2002 - 566 pages
...society. 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...greater part of the members are poor and miserable. 1t is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people should... | |
 | J.C. Smart, William G. Tierney - Education - 2003 - 522 pages
..."But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconvenience to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing...happy, of which the far greater part of the members arc poor and miserable" (Book I, Chapter VIII). In more recent times, the "equity-efficiency quandary"... | |
 | Jerold L. Waltman - Business & Economics - 2004 - 506 pages
...society?... [W]hat 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. 45 CONCLUSION The noted journalist EJ. Dionne has written that "Talk of citizenship and civic virtue... | |
 | Jerold L. Waltman - Business & Economics - 2004 - 254 pages
.... . [W]hat improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing...which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.45 CONCLUSION The noted journalist EJ. Dionne has written that "Talk of citizenship and civic... | |
 | Pierre-Richard Agénor - Business & Economics - 2004 - 794 pages
...Fielding (1994), and Feliz and Welch (1997). Chapter 10 Growth, Poverty, and Inequality: Some Basic Facts No Society can surely be flourishing and happy, of...greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 (Book 1, Chapter 8). After a long period of relative neglect... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - Philosophy - 2009 - 352 pages
...most individuals can contribute to the greater happiness of mankind, Smith says that "No society can be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable" (WN 96). Third, Griswold's interpretation leans almost entirely on a single, albeit famous, passage... | |
 | Catherine E. Ingrassia, Jeffrey S. Ravel - History - 2005 - 364 pages
...labor, as when he famously declares that the poor have a right to food that they themselves produce: 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 a share of the produce of their own labour... | |
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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. 
