LAISSEZ-FAIRE PHILOSOPHY IN 19TH CENTURY BRITAIN

Laissez-Faire Philosophy Challenged In 19th Century Britain



Laissez-Faire Philosophy Challenged In 19th Century Britain

Introduction

The phrase “welfare state” is of recent origin. It can be the first use to describe Labour Britain after 1945. From Britain, the phrase made its way round the world. It can be freely employed, usually but not exclusively by politicians and journalists, in relation to diverse societies at diverse stages of development. Historians also took over the phrase. Attempts can be made to re-write nineteenth and twentieth century history, particularly British history, in terms of the “origins” and “development” of a “welfare state”. Much of the political talk and the international journalism were loose and diffuse.

Thus, at the end of the eighteenth century, the divine right of kings gave way to natural liberty and the contract, and the divine right of the Church the principle of tolerance and the view that a church is “a voluntary society of men,” walks together, in a way that is "absolutely free and spontaneous". Fifty years later, the divine origin and the categorical imperative of duty gave way to utilitarian calculation (Adam, 2009, 51).

Discussion and analysis

On the role of the state, it is highly interventionist and can be intended generate a policy of full employment, where the majority of the population is working and, providing public services. In this model social spending is very high by the State, however, its success lies in the strict controls by spending governmental services, as well as tax collection, which requires close doors to the market due to the high remuneration of subsidies. Finally, it is a crucial point to the furthering of this model to the emancipation of individuals with respect the laws of the market, discommodity welfare, but also with respect to the role of family, because the State fails to hold the family as the dispenser of care (Alcock, 2000, 67-90).

The Scholarly Debate over British Laissez Faire

Britain in the nineteenth 100 years was the large bastion of individualism, where the abominable standard of public finances - non-interference - override public attitude and assembly, and under its advantage, beaten the last remnants of over weaning, mercantilist state. Thus, Captivated by the Allies two intellectual faculties, apparently indomitable, fundamentally individualistic, anti-statist philosophy of utilitarianism and utilitarian financial plight of the free market of the academic school, rejected by the Victorian Government to address the pressing communal problems. Are this idyllic vision or demonic (depending on your political viewpoint) of the nineteenth century, the British finances, political philosophy and public principle that has been withering strike in the last three decades. In particular, the 1960 discussed in expert periodicals are vitally three interrelated issues.

Are the dominant deductions of academic economics can handed out, and the academic economists, as persons, to approve?

Is the UK in the nineteenth century, and some of its one-by-one components, to embody the perfect of negligible government intervention in financial and communal, or rather, there was a time span, propelled by rampant collectivism, which continue?

Finally, ...