Riches and Poverty: An Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1750-1834

ISBN-13: 9780521559201 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 444 str.

Donald Winch; Quentin Skinner; James Tully

Opis

Riches and Poverty explores an influential idea in political economy. The work of Adam Smith provided a key for studying the rich and poor and assessing the American and French revolutions. Meanwhile Britain embarked on its career as the first manufacturing nation, and the debate on poverty provoked an intellectual rift between Malthus and the Lake poets that continues to influence our perceptions of cultural history. Donald Winch has written a compelling narrative of these developments, which emphasizes throughout the moral and political bearings of economic ideas.

Recenzje

'Riches and Poverty is a powerful, innovative and magesterial survey. Large swathes of it are virtually definitive.' Boyd Hilton, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Spis treści

1. After Adam Smith: prologue; Part I. Adam Smith's Science of the Legislator: 2. An excessive solicitude for posthumous reputation; 3. The secret concatenation; 4. The wisdom of Solomon; Part II. Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Factious Citizens: 5. Contested affinities; 6. The loss of regal government; 7. Burke's creed: politics, chivalry, and superstition; 8. The labouring poor; Part III. Robert Malthus as Political Moralist: 9. Imminence and immediacy: initial bearings; 10. New and extraordinary lights; 11. Rather a matter of feeling than argument; 12. A manufacturing animal: things not persons?; 13. The bountiful gift of providence; 14. Last things and other legacies; Part IV: 15. Epilogue.