...Thus, the debate was how best to protect the poor and the weak from starvation, for, as Smith says, "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of...which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."43 Moreover, in a commercial society where there are enormous income inequalities, the poor...

...of the clearest articulations of this priority can be found in Adam Smith. "No society," he argued, "can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the...greater part of the members are poor and miserable." 5 Indeed, it is not adequately recognized (given the championing that Smith gets from the hardnosed...

...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...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...

...I.viii.i3). He held the view, in fact, that an increase in wages was no disadvantage economically. "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...

...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...greater part of the members are poor and miserable." His remark was not aimed at health care, yet it deals with the issue of how we allocate scarce goods...

...to some extent similar to Adam Smith's well-known opinion that 'No society can surely be nourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable' (Smith, 1976, 1.viii.36 x). 20. For happiness corresponding to schole, see Aristotle, NE 1 177 b 4....

...improves the circumstances of the greater part, can never be regarded as any inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of...should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged. Poverty, though it no doubt discourages,...

...Wealth of Nations — perhaps the founding text of capitalist philosophy — the proud liberal wrote: "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...

...language gap in the provision of health care services. Chapter 4 Language, the Economy and Development No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of...greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Smith (1776: 79) A democratic Africa where development is not construed in narrow economic goals but...

...to be the ultimate goal of all economic activity. Smith wrote of self-interest, but he also wrote, "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of...which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."17 Ricardo, the father of free-trade theory, defended trade as being important to the "happiness...