The Impact Of Adam Smith And Thomas Malthus

It is not unusual for a person to be influenced by another. In many cases, well-known people, who are in the textbooks and workbooks, in which students learn and come to know about have been influenced by the people that came before them. People that became known on their own fields of study for their ideas, had other people who influenced their work. People such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus had an impact on Charles Darwin 's work, The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, as well as Karl Marx 's The Communist Manifesto. Smith and Malthus contributed to Darwin 's and Marx 's theory on struggles. And whether it was on science or history or both, or any other subject field, these people had their own ideas that were influenced by another. In Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of the Nation, Adam Smith stated that he has “never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affection indeed, not very common among merchants” (Smith 144). In the world of free market those who can survive on their own,

That is just how it works. But it also do not mean that people are not allowed to try. Smith says that “every man, as long he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition of those any other man, or order of men” (Smith 145). However, a person may not be violating any law but sometimes, their actions drive another person into the struggle in which they can not overcome. People who are in lower classes are bound to become lower and lower. In Marx 's words, “pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth” (Marx Ch I). There are more people who are slowly drowning in debt and are struggling to get out of it. This outcome is worse than just beating a person physically, the trauma is deeper within the person and not just on the