THE JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH POLICY AND ECONOMICS

Adam Smith Award

"The savage nations of hunters and fishers are so miserably poor, that only from mere want, they are frequently reduced or, at least, they think themselves reduced, to the necessity sometimes of directly destroying, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people and those afflicted with lingering diseases to perish with hunger or to be devoured by wild beasts" ( Adam Smith, The Wealth of the Nations, 1776 ).