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  title info:
    title: Building a social science
    sub title: 19th century British cooperative thought
  title info:
    title: 19th century British cooperative thought
  title info:
    title: Nineteenth century British cooperative thought
  name:
    name part: Madden, Kirsten K. (Kirsten Kara)
    name part: 1956-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Persky, Joseph
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 351 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: "Just as the Industrial Revolution in Britain suggested a promise of superabundance, David Ricardo, Robert Malthus, and their colleagues formalized classical political economy with its emphasis on scarcity, self-interest, and 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, he turns the classical political economy on its head. Building his new social science, Owen emphasizes abundance, public spiritedness and communal accumulation of capital. Although the history of the cooperative movement is well documented, the social psychology, architecture, and logic of its varied attempts at theorizing a social science stand in need of reappraisal. The chapters of our book describe, often restate, and in places reconstruct the social science of cooperation-from Robert Owen, through William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler, J.S. Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, the Christian Socialists, the consumer cooperative movement, the Women's Cooperative Guild, William Morris, and the Guild Socialists. Each of these writers makes theoretical assumptions concerning social psychology, proposes institutional structures, and then derives consequences for the material economy, happiness, and human development. Some postulate a feedback mechanism strengthening and stabilizing an enlarged self-interest. Sparked by the intellectual optimism and fellow feeling of the early British cooperative theorists we start to rebuild their humane social science. While enriching our understanding of intellectual history, we hope our analyses of these theories also carry insights relevant to the present-insights concerning employment relations, persistent inequality, and low levels of human development"--
  table of 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
  table of contents: 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
  note: Kirsten Madden and Joseph Persky.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Cooperation
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Cooperative societies
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Economics
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Coopératives
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 19e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Économie politique
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 19e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  subject:
    topic: Theory
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  classification: HD3485.A4 M33 2024
  classification: 334.0941
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231214
    record change date: 20260319204328.0
    record identifier: in00005726593
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng