An End to Poverty?: A Historical DebateColumbia University Press, 28 вер. 2005 р. - 288 стор. In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet argued that all citizens could be protected against the hazards of economic insecurity. In An End to Poverty? Gareth Stedman Jones revisits this founding moment in the history of social democracy and examines how it was derailed by conservative as well as leftist thinkers. By tracing the historical evolution of debates concerning poverty, Stedman Jones revives an important, but forgotten strain of progressive thought. He also demonstrates that current discussions about economic issues—downsizing, globalization, and financial regulation—were shaped by the ideological conflicts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
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... human motivation as well as his theory of history. In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith wrote of the ambition which drove on 'the poor man's son' to strive to become rich and, if successful, to advertise his newfound status by ...
... human activity, but that it was nevertheless to be cherished – because it explained why mankind was induced to 'found cities and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which ennoble and embellish human life ...
... human affairs. In the course of the 1790s, this outlook, deeply rooted in Christian assumptions about original sin, was translated into the terms made available by the Newtonian language of natural theology and was extended into the ...
... human race . ' The intellectual progress of humankind was now about to be accompanied by a material transformation of the human condition . " The labours of recent ages ' , Condorcet wrote , ' have done much for the honour of man ...
... Human Mind ' . Against those who maintained that the gulf between rich and poor was an inescapable part of ' civilisation ' , Condorcet argued that inequality was largely to be ascribed to ' the present imperfections of the social art ...
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1734 | |
1747 | |
The Reaction in Britain | 1790 |
The Reaction in France | |
the Proletariat and the Industrial | |
The Wealth of Midas | |
Resolving The Social Problem | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |