For economic history nerds - a neo-classical paper suggests 'welfare' before the New Poor Law did not have huge social costs. https://t.co/NwQRxuHd2u https://t.co/rwhzHnww95
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RT @Kumar_EconIneq: New paper by Clark and Page in Cliometrica on the Poor Laws of 1834. I especially like the concluding line of the abst…
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Bookmarking coz the last sentence of the abstract: "Political economy, it seems, was born in sin." Welfare reform, 1834: Did the New Poor Law in England produce significant economic gains? https://t.co/YfoA7KGT6h
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@chrisbrooke Have you seen this by the way? Excellent article. https://t.co/xAdXvuHm3Q