Question

Use the following excerpt from Robert Owen to answer the question below:

"Train any population rationally, and they will be rational. Furnish honest and useful employments to those so trained, and such employments they will greatly prefer to dishonest or injurious occupations. It is beyond all calculation the interest of every government to provide that training and that employment; and to provide both is easily practicable."

Source: A New View of Society - Essays 1813-1816, Robert Owen

In what way might Adam Smith have disagreed with this statement?

Smith believed that education was only for the poor.

Smith believed that workers could not be trained to work.

Smith believed that the government's role was very limited.

Smith believed that the government should directly employ people.

Answer 1

The best option would be C) Smith believed that the government's role was very limited.

Answer 2

Answer:

Smith believed that the government's role was very limited.

Explanation:

Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher, considered one of the greatest exponents of classical economics and philosophy of economics. He is best known for his work The Wealth of Nations (1776), which is a study about the process of creation and accumulation of wealth, issues already addressed by the mercantilists and physiocrats, but without the scientific nature of Smith's work. Because of that work, which was the first complete and systematic study on the subject, Smith is known as the father of modern economics. He was Honorary Rector of the University of Glasgow.