...regulate both." In fact, little else was required "to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration...being brought about by the natural course of things." 30 Whigs explicitly rejected the Jacksonian principle that mankind's affairs would attain their highest...

...observation: If we accept the view attributed to Adam Smith by Dugald Stewart 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', then the English political system provided such a basis. It guaranteed peace through...

...fair play in the pursuit of her ends, that she may establish her own designs. Little else is required to carry a State to the highest degree of opulence...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....

...by the absence of clear failures of the new model in other parts of the world. According to Smith: "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the...tolerable administration of justice, all the rest being equal."21 Despite such confidence, Smith, Ricardo, and Malthus each predicted the inevitable decay...

...productive uses. How do you get that? Adam Smith wrote the bible in effect on that. Let me quote the master. Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest...being brought about by the natural course of things. So what we need is a supportive legal framework for the market system to work and produce wealth. For...

...off with a laissez-faire image best expressed in a slogan taken from one of Smith's earliest lectures ("Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about...

...States in History, 1986, ch. 6, pp.154-176. Adam Smith apparently believed that 'little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence...taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.' ' This chapter does not analyse the specific relationships between states and the provision of justice,...

...of this way of disposing of the problem is Adam Smith's well-known dictum: "Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism than peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice" (Dugald Stewart, 1858, p. 68). Two...

...and freedom." We can combine this balance with Adam Smith's view, as recorded by Dugald Stewart, that "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the...being brought about by the natural course of things." (quoted in Hall l985, p. l4l). We then have a Thatcherite picture that describes how things happened....

...formula for prosperity were a mystery. In the 18th century, Adam Smith observe<J that "little else is a requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of...opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes ana tolerable administration of justice." Castro, of course, has chosen contrary policies. Rather than...