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Memoir on Pauperism

Memoir on Pauperism

Book by Alexis Henri C M Clerel Tocqueville
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Immediately after completing the first volume of Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote his Memoir on Pauperism. It was inspired by a visit to England two years earlier and was surely in his mind while he was writing Democracy. ... Google Books
Originally published: 1835
The 'Memoir on Pauperism' has its place in the enormous contemporary literature on the Poor Laws in England, expressing a view that stemmed directly from the ...
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Written in 1835, at 36 pages, Memoir of Pauperism is more of an essay than a book. Gertrude Himmelfarb sets the context with a nice 21 page introduction.
Dec 28, 1997 · Tocqueville's ''Memoir on Pauperism,'' in which he foresaw the law of unintended consequences a century and a half before it was first formally ...
Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings allows us to study his sustained thought on pauperism, poverty assistance, governmental assistance programs, and social ...
Title: Memoir on Pauperism. Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 · Translator: Drescher, Seymour · Contributor: Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
The ”Memoir on Pauperism,” delivered to the Royal Academic Society of Cherbourg in 1835 and printed in the proceedings of the Academy, was not included in ...
Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings allows us to study his sustained thought on pauperism, poverty assistance, governmental assistance programs, and social ...
In the "Memoir," Tocqueville seeks to understand why the most impoverished countries of Europe in his time have the fewest paupers.
While the term "pauperism" is now outdated, the idea behind it remains important to the discussion of poverty, charity, and the Welfare State at the close ...
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Private charity is more likely to alleviate poverty than government aid. how good intentions backfire to produce a chronically dependent underclass.