Building a social science : 19th-century British cooperative thought / Kirsten Madden and Joseph Persky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madden, Kirsten K. (Kirsten Kara), 1956- author.

Persky, Joseph, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in the history of economics.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in the history of economics

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooperation--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Cooperation.

Cooperative societies--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Cooperative societies.

Economics--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Just as the Industrial Revolution in Britain suggested a promise of abundance, David Ricardo, Robert Malthus, & their colleagues formalized classical political economy with its emphasis on scarcity, self-interest, & private accumulation of capital. At the same time, Robert Owen took a different path arguing that the new technologies open a new world. In effect, his ideas turn classical political economy on its head. Building this new social science, Owen emphasizes abundance, public spiritedness, & communal accumulation of capital. Although the history of the cooperative movement is well documented, the social psychology, architecture, & logic of its economics stand in need of reappraisal. This book describes, often restates, & in places reconstructs the social science of British cooperative writers.

Contents:

Cover

Series

Building a Social Science

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction to the Economics of Cooperation

Part I. The First Theorists

2 Robert Owen's Cooperative Vision

3 To Owen's Left: William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler

4 The Cooperative Socialism of J. S. Mill and Harriet Taylor

Part II. Paths: Workshops, Stores, and the Domestic Economy

5 Cooperation in Christ's Kingdom

6 Redirecting the Surplus through Consumer Cooperation

7 The Women's Cooperative Guild

8 Profit Sharing

Part III. Toward System

9 Creativity, Craft, and Cooperation

10 Guild Socialism: The Integration of Cooperative Themes

Part IV. Reflections and a Reconstruction

11 Reflections from Left, Right, and Center

12 Reconstructions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 19, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-769376-8

0-19-769374-1

OCLC:

1418754947