Adam Smith Wrote That

question 66

Multiple Choice

Adam Smith wrote that

• A) the economic problems of eighteenth-century Britain were in part caused by overspecialization.
• B) the government should control the economy with an invisible hand.
• C) the pursuit of private self-interest tends to promote the public interest.
• D) the owners of resources should be given subsidies to induce them to employ those resources in the most efficient way.
• E) eighteenth-century Britain needed a better-planned economy.

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