Apostles of Inequality

1. Introduction: "The Multiplication of Wretchedness"

Part I: Arthur Young, the Agricultural Revolution, and the Spread of Poverty

2. "The Yoke of Improvement"
3. "The Enchantment of Property"
4. "A Rooted Hatred Between the Rich and the Poor"

Part II: Political Economy and "the Great Lottery of Life"

5. Political Economy and the Rural Poor
6. Nassau Senior and the New Poor Laws

Part III: The Economist and a Political Economy "Ordained by Providence"

7. The Economist: "The Most Elementary Truths"
8. Bad Farming: The Ghost of a Dead Monopoly
9. Ireland: "They Lie Beyond the Pale"
10. Cooked Land, Cotton, and Slavery
11. Conclusion: "The Home-made Civilization of the Rural English"

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• Classes sociais
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• Crises e desastres financeiros
• História económica
• Mobilidade social

English cottagers; peasants; rural capital; rural poverty; enclosure; political economy; Arthur Young; the Economist; Poor Laws; Nassau William Senior; Adam Smith; Thomas Robert Malthus; economic history