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

by Donald Winch

2021-01-01 22:02:57

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 manufa... Read more
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. Less

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File size8.9 X 5.94 X 0.94 in
Print pages444
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date January 26, 1996
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521559201
Donald Winch is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. His previous publications include studies of classical political economy, the relationship of economics and poli...

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