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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Jonathan Swift offers us an incomparable starting point to reflect on modernity. Our work refers to several of his works and the scientific and social context that surrounds them. It would be impossible to summarize all of them, but it would also be difficult to follow our argument without remembering the argument of a work of his, apparently minor, and that, however, in a few pages crumbles his time and several of the main economic theories of the time . We refer to A Modest Proposition to prevent the children of Ireland from being a nuisance to their parents or to the country, better known as A modest proposition, which will be the way we will call it below.In a dispassionate tone, full of accounting details, the narrator writes a letter to the British royal authorities, in which he proposes that the children of the Irish poor ( a nuisance to the public ) be fed until the age of one year and then sold to the gentle men, who should eat them with great pleasure on such occasions as marriages and baptisms. In the Introduction by William Alfred Eddy to Swift's works,

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