1st Edition

The Market and its Critics (Routledge Revivals) Socialist Political Economy in Nineteenth Century Britain

By Noel Thompson Copyright 2015
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface;  Introduction;  Part One: The Birth of a Market Economy  1. Physiocratic Anti Commercialism  2. The Moral Economy of the Dispossessed  3. Socialist Political Economy and the Market, 1815-50  4. Communitarian Political Economy, 1815-50  5. John Gray and John Bray: Planning in Embryo;  Postscript: Socialism Without the Market;  Part Two: The Triumph of a Market Company Introduction  6. James Hole: Mid-Century Owenite Socialism  7. Mid-Century Christian Socialism  8. Mid-Century Market Socialism: Aristarchus and M. Justitia  9. John Ruskin and the Moralisation of the Market;  Postscript: ‘Bronterre’ O’Brien, the shape of things to come?;  Part Three: The Decay of a Market Economy;  Introduction;  10. William Morris: An Epoch of Rest and Simplicity  11. The Political Economy of State Socialism  12. Fabianism and the Market;  Peter Kropotkin: An Anarcho-Communist Postscript;  Conclusion;  Bibliography;  Index

Biography

Noel Thompson