 | James C. W. Ahiakpor - 2003 - 278 oldal
...taxation and peace in promoting economic growth in Smith's view is contained in his declaration that "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the...rest being brought about by the natural course of things."3 Also by maintaining a general state of confidence, a government encourages income earners... | |
 | John M. Hobson - 2004 - 396 oldal
...interventionist state. Or as Dugald Stewart put it, summarising Adam Smith's position: 'Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence...rest being brought about by the natural course of things'.1 In essence, the British state is believed to have created the correct background conditions... | |
 | Roy C. Smith - 2004 - 244 oldal
...politics and began to form a theme central to all his subsequent work. He advanced the theory that: Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest...administration of justice; all the rest being brought by the natural course of things. All governments which thwart this natural course, which force things... | |
 | Mark T. Berger - 2004 - 368 oldal
...his analysis of the English trajectory with the comment by Adam Smith that "little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence...justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural order of things". Macfarlane then goes on to argue that between the thirteenth and the eighteenth centuries... | |
 | Gerald M. Meier - 2004 - 264 oldal
...maintenance of certain public institutions and certain public works (1776: bk. 4, ch. 9). According to Smith, "little else is requisite to carry a state to the...taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice." Smith was especially emphatic in criticizing any state allocation of investment: man or lawgiver can... | |
 | Robert William Dimand - 2004 - 430 oldal
...pursuit of her ends, that she may establish her own designs." " Little else is requisite to carry a slate to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest...peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of jostice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. All governments which thwart... | |
 | Jennifer Pitts - 2009 - 400 oldal
...(1755) manuscript nicely captures Smith's confidence in the naturalness and universality of progress: "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the...rest being brought about by the natural course of things."18 While the role of economic factors in the definition of each stage has led some scholars... | |
 | Philippe Aghion, Steven N. Durlauf - 2005 - 1139 oldal
...Africa are well 2 Development theory then reduces to Adam Smith's famous and compelling dictum, that "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the...taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice". 3 See Greif, Milgrom and Weingast (1994) for one of many possible examples. governed, and yet remain... | |
 | Gareth Stedman Jones - 2005 - 300 oldal
...minimalist account of the political preconditions of a functioning commercial state. He wrote in 1755: '[L]ittle else is requisite to carry a state to the...peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice.'27 He followed Hume in rejecting a contractarian account of the origins of government. Political... | |
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Little else is requisite to carry a State to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice ; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. 
