Karl Marx's Economics

Karl Marx's Economics
Author: John Cunningham Wood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1993
Genre: Marxian economics
ISBN: 9780415087124

The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848

The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848
Author: Maxine Berg
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1982-02-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521287593

Dr Berg argues that technical change was one of the foremost theoretical concerns of Ricardo and his successors, and the foundation for their distinctly optimistic view of the future. She shows how the Machinery Question fostered the social conditions in which the status of Political Economy as a discipline was established, and concludes that by the 1840s the divisions over machinery were firmly embedded in the great rival creeds of the future, liberalism and socialism.

Locke Among the Radicals

Locke Among the Radicals
Author: Daniel Layman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190939095

Capitalism in the western world is currently facing a crisis of legitimacy in the face of growing inequality. But many forget that the global, capitalist world as we know it today emerged largely during the industrial revolution. Four remarkable thinkers of the long nineteenth century, the Lockean radicals--Thomas Hodgskin, Lysander Spooner, John Bray, and Henry George--responded to the horrid and rampant economic injustices at the time by picking up the loose ends of Locke's property theory and weaving them into two competing strands. Each strand addressed problems of liberty and equality then emerging from industrial capitalism, but each did so in a different way. As Daniel Layman argues, in one camp, Hodgskin and Spooner, libertarian radicals, argued that the world of resources is common to all people only in the negative sense of being originally "unowned" by anyone. According to them, there are no just grounds for state redistribution except to correct past injustices, and governments are typically little more than thieving and oppressive gangs. In the other camp, Bray and George, egalitarian radicals, held that all people have a positive claim to share equally in the world's resources. According to them, states should ensure, through redistributive taxation and other progressive policies, that our institutions respect this common right. Locke Among the Radicals tells the forgotten story of the Lockean radicals and the crucial role they played in addressing problems latent in Locke's theory. Layman argues persuasively that some of the radicals' insights provide a blueprint for a form of liberal distributive justice possible to achieve today.

Hijacked

Hijacked
Author: Elizabeth Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2023-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009275437

Shows how the work ethic has been used to oppress workers, and also to liberate them.

The Market and its Critics (Routledge Revivals)

The Market and its Critics (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Noel Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317588541

The Market and Its Critics, first published in 1988, considers the reaction of socialist writers to the growth of the market economy in nineteenth century Britain, and examines in detail the diverse elements of the critique which they formulated. Dr Thompson looks at the theoretic and thematic continuities and discontinuities over the century, structuring his study around the idea of a changing socialist response to the market economy. Much of the literature in question is comprehensive, perceptive and acute. However, the writers invariably discounted the possibility of the market playing a role in a future socialist or communist commonwealth. The solutions they posited to the problem were inapplicable to the increasingly industrial economy of the time. It was this that left their writing vulnerable to attack, and which had profound consequences both for the fate of the socialist political economy in nineteenth century Britain and its subsequent evolution in the twentieth century.

Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth Century Socialism

Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth Century Socialism
Author: Ophélie Siméon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429839502

This first volume will showcase the richness and diversity of the Owenite movement, which spanned decades (from Owen’s first published books in 1813-16 to the late 1840s), political allegiances, genders and continents. This volume therefore calls for a variety of sources not easily available elsewhere - including books, pamphlets, correspondence and newspaper articles - and a variety of often overlapping voices - from Chartists to early co-operators, secularists, non-British Owenites and proponents of women’s rights. The sheer range of Owenite ventures (intentional communities, co-operatives, labour exchanges and experiments in popular education) will be covered, thus blending social and political history. The attempt to map the Owenite movement will eventually lead to the identification of its shared, core principles and values: internationalism, co-operation, concepts of political change, and above all, the ideal of community.

The Sense of Reality

The Sense of Reality
Author: Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691182876

"First published by Chatto & Windus, 1996."