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

List 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.

Summary

Riches and Poverty explores the moral and political economy of wealth creation, centring on Adam Smith and Robert Malthus, and encompassing the American and French revolutions, the Poor Law debate, and Britain's emergence as an industrial nation. Donald Winch has written a compelling study of a fundamental idea in political economy.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Winch, Donald (University of Sussex) Winch
• Assisted by: Quentin Skinner (Editor), James Tully (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.1996
• EAN: 9780521559201
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55920-1
• No. of pages: 444
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education