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19th century British cooperative thought
Nineteenth century British cooperative thought
1 online resource (viii, 351 pages) : illustrations.
"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"--
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Oxford studies in the history of economics