...old connotations of unrestrainable enthusiasm, intensity, and violence. Samuel Johnson's claim that "there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money" may, as Hirschman says, underestimate the social consequences of capitalism," but...

...excellent repairer of railcar-making machinery.22 At least one can in a modern capitalist society. THE RICH Mr. Strahan put Johnson in mind of a remark which...in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." "The more one thinks of this, (said Strahan,) the juster it will appear'' — Johnson,...

...is characterized by a desire as innocent as any dignity. "Go for Profit. Samuel Johnson once said: 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money'" (McCormack 1984, 202). This capacity is inherent in everyone: "Most people, I believe,...

...enabled to defend impulses and actions formerly condemned as reprehensible. Samuel Johnson's witticism, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," spoke to the general acceptance of a universe of worldly pursuits and the need to...

...was ll. Montesquieu's propitious image of capitalism reflects the famous line by Dr. Samuel Johnson, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money" (Boswell l933, I, 657). It was John Maynard Keynes who wrote, "It is better that...

...nature. The pursuit of material gain came to be seen as innocuous. In the words of Dr. Samuel Johnson, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." Economic affairs were viewed as mundane, not important enough to affect the human...