Pauvreté et assistance aux pauvres dans l’œuvre de Roscher

Patrick Mardellat ()

Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political Economy, 2010, issue 59, 163-184

Abstract: The assistance freely granted to the poor is essential to the definition of poverty, according to Roscher. Drawing on economic history, he observes a massification of poverty and a systematization of the welfare services. The efficiency obtained does not compensate for the moral cost of this evolution. Assistance is no longer an occasion to practice a virtue, so links between the poor and the rich weaken. Thus, Roscher recalls that the meaning of poverty and care extends beyond its positivist reduction as a social issue. The link of dependence by the poor on aid from the rich is a non-political link, but necessary for the constitution of a political community.

Keywords: poverty; poverty care; pauperism; German School of Historical Economics; Roscher (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B15 I3 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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