Julian Worker’s Reviews > The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time > Status Update

I'm getting through this slowly as it's interesting but difficult to follow - Joseph Townsend was a British medical doctor, geologist and vicar of Pewsey in Wiltshire, known for his 1786 treatise A Dissertation on the Poor Laws in which he expounded a naturalistic theory of economics and opposed state provision...based on the fluctuating populations of dogs and goats on the Juan Fernandez Island(s).

Detailed and fascinating...