Riches and poverty : an intellectual history of political economy in Britain, 1750-1834
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Riches and poverty : an intellectual history of political economy in Britain, 1750-1834
（Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.], 39）
Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In Riches and Poverty, Donald Winch explores the implications of a fundamental and influential idea in political economy. Adam Smith's science of the legislator provided a key to studying the rich and poor in commercial societies, transformed an ancient debate on luxury and inequality, and furnished a basis for assessing the American and French revolutions. Against this background, Britain embarked on its career as the first manufacturing nation, and Malthus made his first contributions to a debate which concluded with the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. Malthus provoked fierce opposition from the Lake poets, opening an intellectual rift that persisted throughout the nineteenth century and continues to influence our perceptions of cultural history. Donald Winch has written a compelling and consistently-argued narrative of these developments, which emphasises throughout the moral and political bearings of economic ideas.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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