They link to this list of choice Adam Smith quotes like this:
"Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality. For one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many."
"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."
De #AdamSmith, en "La riqueza de las naciones" (1776): "Tan pronto como la tierra de cualquier país se convierte toda ella en propiedad privada, los terratenientes, como todos los demás hombres, desean cosechar donde nunca sembraron, y exigen una renta hasta por el producto natural del suelo".
Sus herederos se les debería caer la cara de vergüenza. Si la tuviesen, claro.
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On this day, 250 years ago, Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith laid the first groundwork for classical economics with his magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations, which challenged the prevailing European attitude favoring mercantilism. A full copy can be read on Wikisource (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations).
#year1776 #AdamSmith #classicalEconomics #freeMarkets #liberalism #mercantilism #TheWealthOfNations
“not only is there no invocation of the free market […Smith] plainly sees that government, not private industry, is the only force capable of effectively ‘erecting and maintaining’ the technically unprofitable but nevertheless indispensable ‘publick works’ and ‘publick institutions’”
—Adam Smith’s THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was published 250 years ago #OTD, 8 March 1776. Evan Gottlieb examines Smith’s “Invisible Hand”
‘The invisible hand’ is probably the most recognizable catchphrase of economic talk today. Invoked by supporters of capitalism, it insists upon the essential wisdom and naturalness of allowing financial decisions to be made by unfettered market forces rather than by individual or institutional actors; as U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney liked to tell his supporters […]
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Das #theoretische #Fundament der #Industrialisierung
#AdamSmith gilt als #Begründer der #modernen #Ökonomie. Doch das #Sinnbild der „#unsichtbaren_Hand_des_Marktes“ ist zu #Unrecht zum #Synonym seiner #Philosophie geworden. Vor 250 Jahren veröffentlichte er sein #Hauptwerk „#Der_Wohlstand_der_Nationen“.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/adam-smith-unsichtbare-hand-wohlstand-der-nationen-kapitalismus-100.html
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Le ruissellement qui marche : la richesse des uns, ruisselle sur les optimiseurs fiscaux. Bravo #AdamSmith
Yes well .. #Kapitalismus 🙄
Es war immerhin DER #AdamSmith, der davor gewarnt hatte dass die ständig steigenden #Bodenrenten in einem Staat irgendwann jegliche wirtschaftliche Entwicklung abwürgen werden.
Steigende #Mieten sind sozusagen quasi das Unkapitalistische überhaupt.
Systemkiller, sie sind.
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