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“Saving the World: A Challenge to Political Science”
Lawrence Mead is a professor at New York University where he teaches courses in American politics and public policy. Best known as one of the theoretical architects of the welfare reform the 1990s, he has written several influential books on sound welfare policy including Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship, The New Politics of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor in America, and Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin. His current research examines the moral and theological issues surrounding helping the poor, and his recent monograph from the American Enterprise Institute Values and Capitalism project, From Prophecy to Charity: How to Help the Poor, critiques the moral presuppositions of past and current policies to alleviate poverty and provides a framework for a proven approach to helping those in need: charity rooted in love. Mead holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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