Biblioteca / 1980-1989
Gregory Claeys. Machinery, Money and the Millennium. From Moral Economy to Socialism, 1815-1860.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.
280 páginas.
Este libro representa una reevaluación largamente esperada de la historia del primer pensamiento económico socialista. Utiliza una gran cantidad de panfletos y periódicos recientemente descubiertos que arrojan nueva luz sobre el desarrollo de las ideas económicas radicales en el siglo XIX.
El autor traza las desviaciones de Robert Owen y sus seguidores de la tradición cristiana de la economía moral, es decir, la regulación de la economía por criterios morales. Basando sus argumentos en la jurisprudencia de la época, el autor analiza el desarrollo de la tradición que llevó del owenismo y el cartismo a las primeras ideas de Marx y Engels.
Este estudio erudito y perspicaz será de gran importancia para cualquier persona interesada en la historia de la economía política y en la historia del socialismo y del pensamiento del siglo XIX en general.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Socialism and the Crisis of the Nineteenth Century
I – Economic Distress and the Rise of Socialism
II – Scope and Intentions
III – Socialism: Lockean, Smithian, Ricardian, Owenite
IV – Owenism, History and Civilization
V – Organization
Chapter One
Just Exchange, Charity and Community of Goods
Explorations in the History of Property Theories before 1815
I – The Moral Economy and Community of Goods. Fair Exchange, Fust Price and the Right to Charity
II – Property, Labour and Poverty, 1650-1780
III – Radicalism and Commercial Society, 1790-1815
IV – Civilization, Property and the Origins of Socialism
Chapter Two
Robert Owen
The Machinery Problem and the Shift from Employment to Justice
I – Assessing the Problem, 1800-20
II – Providing a Solution, 1821-58
III – Moral and Political Economy in Owen’s Thought
Chapter Three
George Mudie
The Quest for Economic Socialism
I – The Earliest Owenite Economic Writings
II – Mudie as the ‘Economist’
III – The Later Years
Chapter Four
William Thompson
From ‘True Competition’ to Equitable Exchange
I – Voluntary Exchange or Community of Goods?
II – The Fate of Competition, 1825-31
III – Utility and Equitable Exchange
Chapter Five
John Gray
Planning, Money and the Commercial Utopia
I – The Lecture on Human Happiness Productive Labour and Rational Restraint
II – Central Planning, Competition and Justice
III – From ‘Standard’ Production to the Money Problem
Chapter Six
Owenism, Land Nationalization and the Labour Movement, 1830-60
I – The Core Doctrines of Owenite Thought
II – The Development of Non-Owenite Socialism to 1860
Chapter Seven
From Owenism to Marxism
Engels and the Critique of Political Economy, 1842-46
I – Engels, Owenism and Political Economy
II – Marx, Engels and Owenism
Conclusion
Socialism, Moral Economy and Civilization
I – Poverty and the Collapse of Moral Economy
II – Socialism and Moral Economy
III – Economic Socialism and Political Economy
Bibliography