The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age

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Knopf, 1984 - History - 596 pages
Discusses 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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21
Political Economy as Moral Philosophy
42
Pauper versus Poor
147
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