The Rise of the Ideas of the Welfare State
| Autor: | Judith Buber Agassi |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Landed property
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Welfare state 06 humanities and the arts 050905 science studies 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Economic Justice Democracy Universal suffrage Inheritance tax Philosophy Agrarian society Political economy Law 060302 philosophy Sociology 0509 other social sciences Duty Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 21:444-457 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7441 0048-3931 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/004839319102100402 |
| Popis: | It is customarily assumed that welfare-state thinking can only appear as a product of the sharpening conflict between revolutionary socialists and the defenders of the status quo; the case of Tom Paine proves otherwise. Although he defended private enterprise (to the exclusion of large landed property), he developed a forgotten early version of a comprehensive system of public welfare in the second part of his The Rights of Man and in his Agrarian Justice, where he argued that the new revolutionary democratic government based on representation and universal suffrage has the duty and the means not only of relieving poverty but of preventing it by a system of universal allowances for marriage, childbirth, the raising of children, basic education, old age pensions and temporary housing and employment for the unemployed of the metropolis. This, he said, should be financed by a progressive inheritance tax levied especially on landed estates. |
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