RT Journal
A1 et al
T1 MEdical economic reviews and abstracts
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD December 10
VO 141
IS 15
SP 1076
OP 1077
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.62910150012021
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.62910150012021
AB The Return of Adam Smith. 
    By George S. Montgomery Jr. Cloth. Price, $2.50. Pp. 147. Caxton Printers, Ltd., Caldwell, Idaho, 1949.The author feels that the present cry for promotion of the general welfare at the expense of freedom for the individual is folly and that current attempts to force a redistribution of wealth by fiscal policies and regulation of enterprise are stymying the efforts of productive persons. His solution to America's economic problems is ever expanding production. He insists, "... only under a system of individual freedom of enterprise and thrift can nations approach their inherent potentialities in striving for well-being and opulence."The author's ideal seems to be the society conceived by Adam Smith. He attacks those who have maintained that Smith's theories cannot be applied to our present society because the industrial revolution has changed the nature of capitalistic enterprise. He reiterates the belief that a more complicated