Wealth and Poverty: Classical Economic Thought

Ayman Reda
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Ayman Reda: The University of Michigan - Dearborn

Chapter Chapter 11 in Prophecy, Piety, and Profits, 2018, pp 153-159 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the views of the classical economists on the topic of wealth and poverty, in addition to the views of the philosophers of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. In particular, we examine the views of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, David Hume, and Adam Smith, and the lasting impact such views had on the subsequent intellectual discourse. The chapter highlights the great departure that occurred in the modern intellectual view of wealth and poverty from the earlier Greek and Christian traditions.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56825-0_11

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