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Public Revenues

In: Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy

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  • Gavin Kennedy

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Whatever amount is spent by the State on carrying out its three main duties it has to be raised by one means or another with ‘the people contributing a part of their own private revenue in order to make up a publick revenue to the sovereign or commonwealth’.1 In the absence of an independently wealthy sovereign, a feature of monarchy long since absent in Britain, taxation from the private revenues of the people was the main source of government revenue. Smith did not think much of the commercial prowess of sovereigns — and thought even less of the prowess of merchants, instancing those of the East India Company for particular contempt as they were ‘bad traders’ and ‘bad sovereigns’.2

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  • Gavin Kennedy, 2005. "Public Revenues," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy, chapter 55, pages 229-231, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51119-4_55
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230511194_55
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