...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 highest degree...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...

...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...

...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...

...Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, the great economist Adam Smith wrote: "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree...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...

...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 highest degree...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...

...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...

...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 highest degree...being brought about by the natural course of things." Smith succeeded in drawing broad inferences about the nature of commercial organization and institutions...

...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 highest degree...being brought about by the natural course of things." (See "Adam Smith Quotes," Adam Smith Institute, http://www.adamsmith.org.) References Aghion, Philippe,...

...parsimonious but strong government. He wrote of three purposes of government: "Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence...taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice" (in Danhert 1974, 218). More specifically, Smith endorsed (1) the need for a well-financed militia...

...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...