Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

Niall O’Flaherty is Senior Lecturer in the History of European Political Thought at King’s College London R. J. W. Mills is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews -- .

Ideas of poverty in an age of Enlightenment: an introduction – R. J. W. Mills
1 ‘Welfare for whom?’ The place of poor relief in the theory and practice of the enlightened absolutist state – T. J. Hochstrasser
2 Economic Bienfaisance and the Physiocratic rhetoric of charity – Arnault Skornicki
3 Poverty, rights and the social contract in Enlightenment Austrian-Habsburg Lombardy – Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
4 An economic regalism: poverty and charity in eighteenth-century Spain – Jesús Astigarraga and Javier Usoz
5 The embarrassment of poverty: Dutch decline, liberalism, patriotism and the duties of the state around 1800 – Koen Stapelbroek
6 Edmund Burke and Adam Smith on the ‘labouring poor’: an eighteenth-century debate – Anna Plassart
7 Beyond a charitable design? Robert Wallace as a theorist of poverty and population growth – Conor Bollins
8 Conceptions of Polish and Russian poverty in the British Enlightenment – Ben Dew
9 Desolation and abundance: poverty and the Irish landscape, c.1720-1820 – James Stafford
10 A new moral economy: the early reception of Malthus – Niall O’Flaherty
11 Poverty, autonomy and control: Patrick Colquhoun’s Treatise on Indigence (1806) - Joanna Innes -- .