... factor asymmetry exploitation collateralizability policies basic income wealth taxes Thomas Paine The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together. — Thomas Paine (1797) We can accept the outcome...

... reluctantly to a politics of counterpublics. This chapter explores the response of rationalist intellectuals, often followers of Thomas Paine, to the idea of the public sphere, and how the dominant political public was shaped by exclusion of the most radical voices. bourgeoisie British corruption...

...) expands, the ability to support oneself gains center stage. Thomas Paine is the central author here. churches Hawthorne Nathaniel Paine Thomas Tocqueville Alexis de Baldwin James Michaud Regis Porte Joel Wright Richard Edwards Jonathan Great Awakening and emotion Winthrop John Chauncy Charles...

...This chapter is devoted to the contribution of Thomas Paine, who developed an alternative way forward for the Left. He has been wrongly described as a socialist. His innovative arguments for a guaranteed income and for a redistribution of wealth are shown to be highly relevant for today’s...

... Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine in Britain, the Federalist Papers in republican North America, and a gamut of voices in revolutionary and post-revolutionary France, spanning the political spectrum from side to side. The chapter ends with social critics in the early nineteenth century, like Samuel Taylor...

... with reference to God, in France without). Two revolutionary authors are also mentioned: Thomas Paine in America, Emmanuel Sieyès in France. Paine Thomas Sieyes Emmanuel Maximilian II of Bavaria Palmer Robert R Ranke Leopold von Schmale Wolfgang Blackstone William Chamberlayne Edward Fauchet Claude...

... with conversational discourse in coffeehouses to produce the temperate and civilized souls that David Hume celebrated in his essays. Thomas Paine later in the eighteenth century exerted pressure on the exclusivity of this civilized public and championed a sphere of absolute publicity, where the significance of face...

... clarifies the differences between representative government and representative democracy as Thomas Paine first envisioned them in the course of his 1791 debate with Sieyes. Alengry Franck Condorcet Marquis de federalism Girondins Paine Thomas Robespierre Maximilien Saint Just Louis Antoine de Sieyes...

...It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here, taking as its guide Thomas Paine's subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” this book...

... Paine from New Rochelle, New York, to England (1819). From Craig Nelson, Thomas Paine (New York: Viking, 1996) . Figure 10. Pierre L'Enfant's body lying in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol, April 28, 1909. Courtesy of the Washingtoniana Division, DC Public Library...