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An End to Poverty?. A Historical Debate.
Gareth Stedman Jones
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Description for An End to Poverty?. A Historical Debate.
Hardback. Tracing the historical evolution of debates concerning poverty, this book demonstrates that discussions about economic issues - downsizing, globalization, and financial regulation - were shaped by the ideological conflicts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 395.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231137829
SKU
V9780231137829
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About Gareth Stedman Jones
Gareth Stedman Jones is professor of political science at Cambridge University, a fellow of King's College, and director of the Centre for History and Economics. His works include Outcast London (1971), Languages of Class (1983), and Charles Fourier, The Theory of the Four Movements (1996).
Reviews for An End to Poverty?. A Historical Debate.
An End to Poverty?... offers an excitingly redrawn map of intellectual history. It also makes a powerful case about our political present and future.
Stephen Howe The Independent [An End to Poverty? is] a marvelous intellectual history of the debate over ending poverty, especially during the Enlightenment era of the 1790s.
Jeffrey Sachs The End of Poverty [Stedman ... Read more
Stephen Howe The Independent [An End to Poverty? is] a marvelous intellectual history of the debate over ending poverty, especially during the Enlightenment era of the 1790s.
Jeffrey Sachs The End of Poverty [Stedman ... Read more