Democratic Economics or Gladstonian Finance?

John Maloney

Chapter 7 in The Political Economy of Robert Lowe, 2005, pp 71-80 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Lowe’s attitude to democracy, like his attitude to everything else, was utilitarian, utility in its turn requiring that no class interest dominated the others. Who should get the vote, therefore, depended on the balance of social forces as well as the level of education. In Australia, this led him to a highly provisional endorsement of general male suffrage: Popular election is a great evil and is only to be endured because it is designed to work out a greater good. If we find the good does not exceed the evil, let us discard the principle altogether.1

Keywords: Political Economy; Free Trade; Indirect Taxis; Direct Taxation; Class Interest (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230504042_7

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