Liberalism in the nineteenth century embraced all the following economic and social ideas EXCEPT

a. Adam Smith's theory of laissez-faire economics: the free pursuit of self-interest and profit.
b. the misery of the poor is due to their laziness, poor judgment, and vice.
c. the "iron law of wages."
d. the equality of all men means that all men are equally responsible for each other's well-being.
e. state help for the poor is counterproductive.


d

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