Retrospectives: Classical Family Values: Ending the Poor Laws as They Knew Them
研究了1830年代初济贫法改革中古典自由主义自食其力原则与依赖现实之间的冲突，指出古典经济学家如纳索·西尼尔和马尔萨斯认为妇女儿童的依赖能自然得到家庭支持，却忽视了这种依赖对代际不平等机会的深远影响。
Poor law reform in the early 1830s provides a key example of the deep conflicts between classical liberal principles of self-reliance and the realities of dependency. Eminent economists, such as Nassau Senior and Thomas Malthus, argued that the dependency of women and children calls forth and motivates its own support from the altruism of husbands and fathers. Like modern welfare reformers, the classical economists asserted the natural necessity and sufficiency of such dependency and ignored its powerful implications for the intergenerational perpetuation of a highly illiberal inequality of opportunity.