1. Adam Smith's Theory of the State
... be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature that the profit could never repay the expense to any individual and which it therefore, cannot be expected that any individual should erect or maintain." (Heilbroner, p 298). Many say they find this section contradicts some of what Smith says earlier in his work where the government should just stay out of things like this ... and let the market function. The other interpretation, the one that Smith seems to provide in his work, is that some public works and institutions are required for economic .....
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