Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-2269-3 • Paperback • May 2009 • $46.99 • (£36.00)
978-0-7391-3942-4 • eBook • December 2007 • $44.50 • (£34.00)
Sharon K. Vaughan is assistant professor of political science at Morehouse College.
Chapter 1
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2
Chapter 2. Avoiding the Greatest Plague of All: Plato and Aristotle
Chapter 3
Chapter 3. Societal Responsibility and the Undeserving Poor: John Locke
Chapter 4
Chapter 4. The Noble Poor: Jean Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith
Chapter 5
Chapter 5. Empirical Influences and the Complexities of Poverty: Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill
Chapter 6
Chapter 6. Poverty as a Challenge to Capitalist Economies: G. W. Hegel and Karl Marx
Chapter 7
Chapter 7. Poverty and Justice: John Rawls and Robert Nozick
Chapter 8
Chapter 8. Conclusion
This book is quite readable and informative. . . . Vaughan presents political theorists with a badly needed study on a topic seldom addressed in the mainstream. Any serious theorist should pick up this book as soon as he or she gets a chance.
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Inquiry specifically into the concept of poverty, and the treatment of poverty as a problem for political philosophy, is much less common than more general treatments of distributive justice in contemporary scholarship, which is why this volume is welcome... Recommended....
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