TY - JOUR
AU1 - Gilbert, Geoffrey
AB -  poverty and revolution, with some of their prominent contemporaries, notably Thomas Paine and Richard Price, consulted for additional pro- and counterrevolutionary perspectives. Last, there is a full section-a small book in itself-titled “Robert Malthus as Political Moralist.” Malthus is viewed very much in the light of an intellectual heir to Smith who nonetheless took an active hand in reshaping postSmithian political economy. Essay 3 takes its title from an observation of Samuel Johnson in 1753 that a “secret concatenation” links the fortunes of the “great and the mean,” “the illustrious and the obscure,” or more bluntly, the rich and the poor. Many an eighteenthcentury thinker in Britain and elsewhere wrestled with the wide disparities of economic fortune that characterized commercial society, seeking some underlying principle of harmony. One formulation common enough to have been dubbed the “English paradox of luxury” found the lavish spending of the rich, while selfish and morally dubious, a useful means of creating employment and income for the poor. As Winch demonstrates, Smith involved himself deeply in the conversation on luxury and inequality, presenting his own version of the English paradox in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and then advancing significantly beyond the 
TI - Riches and Poverty: An Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1750-1834
JF - History of Political Economy
DO - 10.1215/00182702-30-3-537
DA - 1998-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/riches-and-poverty-an-intellectual-history-of-political-economy-in-kuvVt8zXjR
SP - 537
VL - 30
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -