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Joseph Townsend (4 April 1739 - 9 November 1816) was a physician, geologist and nonconformist minister best known for his 1786 treatise A Disseration on the Poor Laws wherein he expounded a naturalistic theory of economics and condemned the existing English Poor Laws.[1]
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[edit]- ^ Joseph Townsend, A Disseration on the Poor Laws, ed. Ashley Montagu (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), 2.
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