 | Gareth Stedman Jones - 2005 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | Howard J. Wiarda - 2005 - 448 pages
...is simple. The experience of East Asia confirms Adam Smith's insight of two hundred years ago that "little else is requisite to carry a state to the...from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."7... | |
 | Robert H. Bates - 2005 - 238 pages
...development economists had converted wholesale to the position of the young Adam Smith, who wrote: Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarianism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being... | |
 | Melvin D. Ayogu, Don Ross - 2005 - 290 pages
...advancing this argument, many allude to the remark attributed to Adam Smith that: Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarianism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 2006 - 48 pages
...the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, the great economist Adam Smith wrote: "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the...being brought about by the natural course of things." The economic analysis presented in this Report builds on the ideas of Smith and his intellectual descendants... | |
 | Daniel Deudney - 2007 - 418 pages
...Concerning political preconditions to robust market relations, Adam Smith is reported to have held that "[l]ittle else is requisite to carry a state to the...peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."40 However, such a minimum... | |
 | Robert Wickes - 2006 - 337 pages
...enlightenment. He once lectured, "Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of affluence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice. ..All governments which thwart this natural course, which force things into another channel, or which endeavor... | |
 | Alan Greenspan - 2007 - 588 pages
...out of the way, personal initiative will see to the common good. Or as he put it in a 1755 lecture: "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the...being brought about by the natural course of things." Smith succeeded in drawing broad inferences about the nature of commercial organization and institutions... | |
 | Indermit Singh Gill, Homi J. Kharas, Deepak Bhattasali - 2007 - 386 pages
...offers an accurate account of the thinking that has led to these insights. 6. Smith (1755) wrote that "little else is requisite to carry a state to the...being brought about by the natural course of things." (See "Adam Smith Quotes," Adam Smith Institute, http://www.adamsmith.org.) References Aghion, Philippe,... | |
 | Jens Jennissen - 2007 - 52 pages
...Merkantilistische und physiokratische Ansätze nach Smith 19 F. Literaturverzeichnis 20 A. Einleitung "Little eise is requisite to carry a State to the highest degree...peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration ofjustice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course ofthings. " Adam Smith Die im vierten... | |
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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. 
