POLITICAL ECONOMISTS AND THE ENGLISH POOR LAWS. A Historical Study of the Influence of Classical Economics on the Formation of Social Welfare Policy

Athens:Ohio University Press. (1977). xvii+300pp. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very good, clean copy with a very good, slightly rubbed and shelf-worn dust jacket. *"This is a study of the application of economic thought to social policy, especially to the reform of the old Poor Law. It seeks to appraise the influence of the political economists from Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill on the formation of social welfare policy..."