LEADER 04203nam 2200589 450 001 9910812573303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-51079-9 024 7 $a10.7312/sted13782 035 $a(CKB)2670000000315799 035 $a(EBL)952906 035 $a(OCoLC)818858261 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000870321 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11497941 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870321 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10819205 035 $a(PQKB)10140092 035 $a(DE-B1597)459351 035 $a(OCoLC)1013961005 035 $a(OCoLC)979742174 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231510790 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL952906 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL690532 035 $a(OCoLC)904963229 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC952906 035 $a(PPN)201881454 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000315799 100 $a20190118d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn end to poverty? $ea historical debate /$fGareth Stedman Jones 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2004] 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (334 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-13783-4 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIntroduction -- $tI. The French Revolution -- $tII. The Reaction in Britain -- $tIII. The Reaction in France -- $tIV. Globalisation: the 'Proletariat' and the 'Industrial Revolution' -- $tV. The Wealth of Midas -- $tVI. Resolving 'The Social Problem' -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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, but forgotten strain of progressive thought. He also demonstrates that current discussions about economic issues-downsizing, globalization, and financial regulation-were shaped by the ideological conflicts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Paine and Condorcet believed that republicanism combined with universal pensions, grants to support education, and other social programs could alleviate poverty. In tracing the inspiration for their beliefs, Stedman Jones locates an unlikely source-Adam Smith. Paine and Condorcet believed that Smith's vision of a dynamic commercial society laid the groundwork for creating economic security and a more equal society. But these early visions of social democracy were deemed too threatening to a Europe still reeling from the traumatic aftermath of the French Revolution and increasingly anxious about a changing global economy. Paine and Condorcet were demonized by Christian and conservative thinkers such as Burke and Malthus, who used Smith's ideas to support a harsher vision of society based on individualism and laissez-faire economics. Meanwhile, as the nineteenth century wore on, thinkers on the left developed more firmly anticapitalist views and criticized Paine and Condorcet for being too "bourgeois" in their thinking. Stedman Jones however, argues that contemporary social democracy should take up the mantle of these earlier thinkers, and he suggests that the elimination of poverty need not be a utopian dream but may once again be profitably made the subject of practical, political, and social-policy debates. 606 $aPoverty$xHistory 615 0$aPoverty$xHistory. 676 $a362.509049 700 $aStedman Jones$b Gareth$0129182 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812573303321 996 $aAn end to poverty$94084148 997 $aUNINA