Thomas Malthus：An Essay on the Principle of Population, Excerpt 153

Probable error of Dr Adam Smith in representing every increase of the revenue or stock of a society as an increase in the funds for the maintenance of labour--Instances where an increase of wealth can have no tendency to better the condition of the labouring poor--England has increased in riches without a proportional increase in the funds for the maintenance of labour--The state of the poor in China would not be improved by an increase of wealth from manufactures.

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