“By the removal of the unnecessary mouths, and by extracting from the farmer the full value of the farm, a greater surplus, or what is the same thing, the price of a greater surplus, was obtained for the proprietor...”

— Adam Smith

Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book III, Chapter IV, p. 450 (On Highland Clearances).

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Scottish moral philosopher and political economist 1723–1790

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