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‘setting to work industrious people’

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  • Gavin Kennedy

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As usual, Smith opens with an historical essay on the fundamental features of the progression towards opulence. It contains items that are never far from his thinking. I look at what he identified as the core elements of the causes of economic growth and real wealth, in the context of the distortions of centuries of mercantile political economy.

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  • Gavin Kennedy, 2008. "‘setting to work industrious people’," Great Thinkers in Economics, in: Adam Smith, chapter 9, pages 148-167, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gtechp:978-0-230-22754-5_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230227545_10
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