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Property, welfare, and freedom in the thought of Thomas Paine : a critical edition / edited by Karen M. Ford.
Lippincott Library HB119.P26 P76 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mellen critical editions and translations ; v. 7.
- Mellen critical editions and translations ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
- Paine, Thomas.
- Free enterprise--History.
- Free enterprise.
- History.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 557 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- I A Revolutionary Life 7
- II Problems in Interpreting Paine's Political Theory 15
- A Political Theory Founded on Equality 17
- Two Traditions: Liberalism and Republicanism 27
- III Paine's Economics 33
- Economics, Politics and Ethics in the Eighteenth Century 33
- Paper Money and the Bank of North America 39
- National Debt and the Bank of England 45
- The Consistency of Paine's Economic Ideas 50
- Socialism 65
- IV Are Liberty and Democracy Consistent? 68
- Representation and Democracy 68
- Republican Government 74
- National Sovereignty, Revolutionary War and Republican Freedom 80
- The Terms of the Marriage: Paine's Republicanism Defended 86
- Note on Currencies and Exchange Values 97
- Thomas Paine on the Bank, Welfare, and Economic Freedom 99
- Chapter 1 Free Trade and Independence 101
- Extract from Common Sense Addressed to the Inhabitants of America 113
- The Crisis No. VII: To the People of England 133
- Chapter 2 Tax and Financing the War 153
- The Crisis, No.IX 167
- The Crisis Extraordinary: On the Subject of Taxation 173
- Extract from Public Good 191
- To the People of America 205
- On the Expences, for Carrying on the War 205
- To the People of America 219
- In Answer to the Citizen of Rhode-Island, on the Five per Cent Duty 229
- On the Five Per Cent Duty 237
- Chapter 3 The Bank Crisis - Philadelphia 1785-7 243
- The Causes and Events of the Crisis 244
- Pennsylvania Politics 1776-1790 247
- The Debate on the Bank in the Newspapers and the Assembly 249
- Paine's Writings on the Bank Crisis 252
- The Effect of the Bank Crisis on Paine's Political Theory 255
- Letter to the Pennsylvania Gazette, 21 December 1785 265
- Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper-Money 271
- Letter to the Pennsylvania Packet, 25 March 1786 325
- Letter to the Pennsylvania Packet, 28 March 1786 327
- Letter to the Pennsylvania Packet, 4 April 1786 329
- Letter to the Pennsylvania Packet, 7 April 1786 333
- Letter to the Pennsylvania Packet, 20 April 1786: To the Public, No. III 341
- Letter to the Pennsylvania Packet, 20 June 1786: On the Advantages of a Public Bank 345
- Letter to the Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 September, 1786: No. V On the Affairs of the State 349
- Letter to the Pennsylvania Gazette, 8 November 1786: No. VI 355
- Letter to the Pennsylvania Gazette, 7 March 1787: No. VII Addressed to the Opposers of the Bank 359
- Chapter 4 National Debt and Paper Money 367
- Prospects on the War and Paper Currency 377
- The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance 413
- Letter to Citoyen Danton, Paris, May 6, 2nd year of the Republic (1793) 441
- Chapter 5 Welfare and the Property Rights of Man 443
- A Theory of Property 446
- Distributive Justice 457
- Extract from Ways and Means 463
- Agrarian Justice Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly 515.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [543]-550) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0773474811
- OCLC:
- 45668910
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