The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial AgeDiscusses the views of great thinkers from 1750 to 1850--including Adam Smith, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, and Friedrich Engels--toward the condition of the poor in England. |
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PART | 21 |
Political Economy as Moral Philosophy | 42 |
Pauper versus Poor | 147 |
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