Adam Smith
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Dr. Adam Smith
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Economist credited as the originator of the doctrine of free trade and author of the Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was published in 1776;
The principle of free trade may, as far as Englishmen are concerned, be treated as the doctrine of Adam Smith.
Adam Smith had, about fifty years earlier, pointed out that trade combinations on the part of workmen were blamed and punished, whilst trade combinations on the part of masters were neither punished nor indeed noticed.
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Classical political economist credited with detecting that employers conspire to keep down wages
in this respect proving themselves less clear-sighted than their master, Adam Smith, who, at least, detected that employers were in a permanent conspiracy to keep down the rate of wages.
Economics of Socialism
Scottish founding figure of classical political economy, invoked as having surpassed Jevons in clarity on wages and labour.
But in his other explanations, Jevons is much less clear even than Adam Smith or Quesnay;
and even of the admirable criticisms on Adam Smith, Ricardo, the physiocrats, and others which are now to be found in the second German volume.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Economist cited for recognizing the antiquity of Metayer tenancy and its Scottish variant.
Adam Smith recognised the great antiquity of the Metayer tenancy, still widely spread over the Continent, of which one variety was in his day found in Scotland under the name of ‘steelbow.
The Rights of War and Peace
Scottish economist and author of Essay on Colonies.
Adam Smith’s “Essay on Colonies” presents an introductory view of the principles governing colonial policy.
This section embraces such names as Grotius, Plato, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Walter Batgehot, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Machiavelli, as well as those builders of Ideal Governments, More, Bacon, Campanella and Rousseau.
A Protest Against Law-Taxes
Economist cited as the transmitter of Davenant's estimate of average subject income.
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations.
The average expenditure of an English subject, infants and adults, rich as well as poor, taken together, has been computed by Davenant (as quoted on this occasion somewhere by Adam Smith) at 8l.
Law in a Free State
The economist credited with originating the doctrine that the labourer is a species of capital, on which the theory of labour capitalisation is said to rest.
The theory of labour capitalisation is based on the doctrine propounded by Adam Smith, but not adhered to by him throughout his writings, that the labourer is a species of capital.