Poverty In Plenty - The Ethics of Income: With an Introductory Chapter From Problems of Poverty

“Poverty In Plenty - The Ethics of Income” is a 1931 essay by English social scientist and economist John Atkinson Hobson. Within it, Hobson analyses financial distribution during the early years of Twentieth Century Britain, exploring the important moral questions related to the necessary economic reforms of the period. Hobson argues that under-consumption, over-production, and unemployment are the result of unfair distribution of wealth, and that a responsible economic government founded ...