Worlds of difference

Until 1948, the institutional gift economy was still organised around the principle of less eligibility, which was originally adopted by Edwin Chadwick to make life in workhouses meaner, uglier, and more uncomfortable than the worst life outside6-a principle endorsed by Sydney and Beatrice Webb,...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2008-05, Vol.371 (9627), p.1883-1885
Main Author: Hart, Julian Tudor, Dr
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business ethics
Capital investments
Community Participation
Delivery of Health Care - economics
Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration
Delivery of Health Care - trends
Family physicians
Health Care Reform - economics
Health Care Reform - trends
Health services
Human Rights
Humans
Ideology
Internal Medicine
National Health Programs - trends
Political parties
United Kingdom
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Summary:Until 1948, the institutional gift economy was still organised around the principle of less eligibility, which was originally adopted by Edwin Chadwick to make life in workhouses meaner, uglier, and more uncomfortable than the worst life outside6-a principle endorsed by Sydney and Beatrice Webb,' and by most other eminent social reformers of the early 1900s, when Lloyd George nationalised the local mutual aid societies developed by industrial communities out of their own material and intellectual resources, to create the foundations for liberal state welfare.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60802-8