Tuesday, January 25, 2011

LT Hobhouse- Justification for State Intervention

Green says "laissez faire enabled the powerful to exploit the weak"
-this view is no longer valid
-the state is now doing alot to help the poor
-(no longer laissez faire)
-function of the state is to secure the conditions upon which mind and character may develop themselves
-to secure conditions upon which its citizens are able to win by their own efforts all that is necessary to a full civic efficiency
-healthy man should be able to support his family by himself
-the "right to work"
-if not, there is a defect in the "economic machine"
-the common has no say in changes in his industry, so the gov't should stick up for him
-common responsibility

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