TY  - JOUR
T1  - MEdical economic reviews and abstracts
AU  - et al
Y1  - 1949/12/10
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.62910150012021
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1076
EP  - 1077
VL  - 141
IS  - 15
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.62910150012021
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.62910150012021
ER  -