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Education and Health Expenditures

In: Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy

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  • Gavin Kennedy

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The expense of educating youth should be met either from the general revenue of society or from the beneficiaries (more correctly, their parents and guardians). Smith found himself in a bind here as he believed that services offered in return for a salary, paid by taxation, private endowments, charities or legacies, would deteriorate to the point of indifference in their quality: In every profession, the exertion of the great part of those who exercise it, is always in proportion to the necessity they are under of making that exertion. … Where competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring the jostle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.1

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  • Gavin Kennedy, 2005. "Education and Health Expenditures," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy, chapter 54, pages 224-228, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51119-4_54
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230511194_54
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