An End to Poverty?: A Historical Debate.(Book Review)

From: History Today | Date: August 1, 2005| Author: Feldman, David | Copyright information

An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate Gareth Stedman Jones Profile Books 288pp 9.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1 861977298

IN THE LAST DECADES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY the Marquis de Condorcet, Tom Paine and others imagined a world without scarcity; a world in which 'there need no longer be such a thing as the poor.' Gareth Stedman Jones' book takes as his starting point their groundbreaking proposals for what we would now call a welfare state. In doing so he sets out to w...

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