...was evident in the comparative peace of the nineteenth century. Samuel Johnson said that there were "few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." Rationality which accompanies the price system brings its own handicaps in the formation of monopolies....

...interest in not being so."71 Now it may well be the case, to cite Samuel Johnson's famous epigram, that, "there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."" Certainly, when one compares the profit motive to the wide range of homicidal and genocidal passions...

...devotion. WASHINGTON IRVING, (1783-1859) US author. Wolfert's Roost, "The Creole Village" (1855). 1 7 There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in lames Boswell, Life of Dr. Johnson,...

...self-interest benefited society by restraining political passions. In the words of Samuel Johnson, 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.'24 Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith agreed, adding that a healthy self-interest lay at the...

...very precise about money: he liked making it - he apparently often quoted Samuel Johnson's remark that 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money' - and he was always very precise about how he spent it. He had his home ledger in which he recorded...

...his master to praise commerce, if moderately pursued, as a stimulus to agricultural productivity. 4. "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," March 27, 1775. 5. Gillies' Aristotle, 11:41. 6. Bernard Mandeville in his Fable of the Bees was to...

...privatized and valorized. Dr Johnson - a moral rigorist, yet also a hard-nosed realist - was confident that 'there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money', 28 and when Adam Smith's mentor, Francis Hutcheson, proposed his distinction between the violent and...

...Business School we give money a lot of attention. We don't see it as evil. Not at all." "Dr. Johnson said, 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.' " Another professor had intervened. "He also said, "It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.'...

...People's affection for money is widely recognized. Dr Samuel Johnson said to William Strachan that 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.' Much more recently a generous attitude to wealth is suggested in the comedian Spike Milligan's remark,...

...privatized and valorized. Dr Johnson - a moral rigorist, yet also a hard-nosed realist - was confident that 'there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money',28 and when Adam Smith's mentor, Francis Hutcheson, proposed his distinction between the violent...