عنوان

Alexis de Tocqueville's Memoir on pauperism /

شابک

025536394X

شابک

9780255363945

شماره

b736152

عنوان اصلي

Alexis de Tocqueville's Memoir on pauperism /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

translated by Seymour Drescher ; with an introduction by Gertrude Himmelfarb.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

London :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

IEA Health and Welfare Unit,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1997.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

39 pages ;

ابعاد

21 cm.

عنوان فروست

Rediscovered riches ;

مشخصه جلد

no. 2

متن يادداشت

"The 'Memoir on Pauperism' was written in 1835 immediately after Alexis de Tocqueville had completed the first volume of Democracy in America. It was based on his visit to England in 1833, where he found that one-sixth of the population had been reduced to reliance on poor relief at a cost approaching nearly one-fifth of total national expenditure." "Today, 17% of the population are reliant on income support - a strikingly similar proportion to Tocqueville's 1833 estimate - and if the other means-tested benefits are included the figure is 27%. In her introduction, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of the foremost historians of the nineteenth century, shows the relevance of Tocqueville's insights for the modern debate about welfare reform in both Britain and America." "Tocqueville began the 'Memoir' with the paradox that the most impoverished countries in Europe, like Spain and Portugal, had few paupers; while England, the wealthiest country at the time, had many. It had happened, he argued, as an unforeseen consequence of good intentions. As wealth had grown, those who prospered were not prepared to tolerate hardship in their midst. But, in truth, the paradoxical result of this early experiment in compulsory state welfare was that beneficiaries were degraded by their reduction to dependency." "In contrast, Tocqueville believed, voluntary charity at its best established a 'moral tie' between giver and receiver and, instead of encouraging dishonesty and 'working the system', it sought to strengthen character and restore independence. Today, Himmelfarb writes, we can more than ever appreciate Tocqueville's criticism of 'government charity' as an 'entitlement'."--BOOK JACKET.

عنوان قراردادي

Mémoire sur le paupérisme.

زبان(وقتي جزئي از عنوان قراردادي باشد)

English

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Memoir on pauperism

موضوع مستند نشده

Charities-- Great Britain.

موضوع مستند نشده

Poor-- England-- History-- 19th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Poor laws-- Great Britain.

موضوع مستند نشده

Public welfare-- England-- History-- 19th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Public welfare-- Great Britain.

موضوع مستند نشده

Armoede.

موضوع مستند نشده

Charities.

موضوع مستند نشده

History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Overheidsbeleid.

موضوع مستند نشده

Poor laws.

موضوع مستند نشده

Poor.

موضوع مستند نشده

Public welfare.

موضوع مستند نشده

England.

موضوع مستند نشده

Great Britain.

بدون عنوان

7

بدون عنوان

7

موضوع مستند نشده

05E

شماره

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Tocqueville, Alexis de,1805-1859.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Drescher, Seymour.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Himmelfarb, Gertrude.

تاريخ عمليات

20201203194438.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y