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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.

Respuesta :

Smith believed that the government's role was very limited.is way might Adam Smith have disagreed with this statement, SMith was staunch supporter of limited government

Answer:

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

Explanation:

He believed that the government's ONLY role should be to prevent businesses from creating monopolies that subvert the "invisible hand of the market."