Critics of Capitalism: Victorian Reactions to 'Political Economy'Elisabeth Jay, Richard Jay Cambridge University Press, 1986-12-11 - 268 psl. By the start of the Victorian period the school of British economists acknowledging Adam Smith as its master was in the ascendancy. 'Political Economy', a catch-all title which ignored the diversity of viewpoints to be found amongst the discipline's leading proponents, became associated in the popular mind with moral and political forces held to be uniquely conducive to the progress of an increasingly industrialised and competitive society. 'Political Economy' served in turn as the focus for critics of equally diverse moral and political persuasions, who sought to challenge the materialism of contemporary society and offer their own assessments of the profound social changes of the time. In the introductory essay to the collection of readings from such 'critics of capitalism', the editors review the principles of the early economists, the way in which these principles were appropriated and applied by their Victorian successors and the contrasting modes which critics of popular economic ideas assumed. Subsequent extracts from the writings of the Owenite Socialist John Bray, Carlyle, Marx and Engels, J. S. Mill, Ruskin, Arnold, T. H. Green, William Morris and G. B. Shaw, demonstrate both the breadth of the possible grounds for ideological opposition to the prevailing philosophy and the shifting nature of the debate as 'Political Economy' itself was revealed as incapable of explaining or responding to the changing conditions of the 1870s. Headnotes to the extracts describe the genesis of individual debate and discuss distinctive stylistic features. Annotation in the form of footnotes and endnotes has been designed to gloss obscure allusions and arguments. In making more accessible the socio-economic writings of those authors now better known for their imaginative work, this volume will enable readers to reach a more profound appreciation of the central role such work played in developing the moral vision embodied in their more lastingly popular books and essays. |
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John Francis Bray 18091897 | 27 |
Labours Wrongs and Labours Remedy or the Age of Might and the Age of Right | 30 |
Thomas Carlyle 17951881 | 52 |
Past and Present | 55 |
Friedrich Engels 18201895 and Karl Marx 18181883 | 81 |
F Engels The Condition of England Review of Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle | 85 |
K Marx The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof | 96 |
F Engels Karl Marx | 105 |
Letter v Friendships Garland | 165 |
Culture and Anarchy An Essay in Political and Social Criticism | 168 |
Thomas Hill Green 18361882 | 178 |
Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract | 181 |
William Morris 18341896 | 195 |
How I became a Socialist | 198 |
Dawn of a New Epoch | 202 |
George Bernard Shaw 18561950 | 218 |
John Stuart Mill 18061873 | 110 |
Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy | 114 |
John Ruskin 18191900 | 137 |
Ad Valorem Unto This Last essay IV | 140 |
Matthew Arnold 18221888 | 162 |
The Transition to Social Democracy | 221 |
Notes | 242 |
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