In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed the bringing of poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the Revolution in France and the promise of the new international economy, Paine and Condorcet argued that all citizens could be protected against the predictable hazards of poverty and insecurity. This was the founding moment of social democracy. But fear and anger greeted this challenge to age-old religious and political attitudes, and new forms of conservatism, of political economy and of Christianity hastened to consign this programme to oblivion. Soon the strength of this reaction was reinforced by unanticipated anxieties about the future of work and livelihood in the newly globalised economy. The result was the enduring triumph of a harsh policy of laisser faire individualism in state and society. It meant that the formation for the early twentieth-century welfare state owed little or nothing to the revolutionary hopes of a hundred years before.
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I read this book after attending a lecture by Jones, and I can safely say it is an inspiration for anyone tired of the dry and superficial treatments of thinkers in this era. It is a good supplement to Gertrude Himmelfarb's Idea of Poverty simply because it takes seriously the proposals which Himmelfarb marginalizes as "utopian". Jones reexamines the legacy of Adam Smith in the context of the relatively recent controversy surrounding Smith's importance outside of the canon of classical political economics. The work examines the proposals of Condorcet and Paine as influenced by Smith, and concludes that their radical proposals were perhaps more mainstream and accepted at the time than previous historians thought. An entertaining read for anyone who wishes to grapple with the current problem of poverty in a historical light.
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