The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section X, p. 430. - Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)