Noel Thompson. The Market and its Critics. Socialist Political Economy in Nineteenth Century Britain.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Part One

The Birth of a Market Economy

1 – Physiocratic Anti-Commercialism

Charles Hall, Piercy Ravenstone and William Godwin

S.T. Coleridge

William Cobbett

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

John Gray

John Bray

Postscript: Socialism without the Market

Part Two

The Triumph of a Market Economy

Introduction

6 – James Hole: Mid-Century Owenite Socialism

7 – Mid-Century Christian Socialism

F.D. Maurice

J.M. Ludlow

E.V. Neale

Conclusion

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 – Willian 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