A History of Economic Doctrines

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Author

Rist, Charles, 1874-1955

Title

A history of economic doctrines : from the time of the physiocrats to the present day

Credits

Produced by Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

HB: Social sciences: Economic theory, Demography

Subject

Economics -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57500

Release Date

July 13, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A HISTORY OF ECONOMIC DOCTRINES
2. 2.PREFATORY NOTE
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.BOOK I: THE FOUNDERS — CHAPTER I: THE PHYSIOCRATS — I — II — CHAPTER II: ADAM SMITH — I: DIVISION OF LABOUR — II: THE “NATURALISM” AND “OPTIMISM” OF SMITH — III: ECONOMIC LIBERTY AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE — IV: THE INFLUENCE OF SMITH’S THOUGHT AND ITS DIFFUSION. J. B. SAY — CHAPTER III: THE PESSIMISTS — I: MALTHUS [290] — II: RICARDO
6. 6.BOOK II: THE ANTAGONISTS — CHAPTER I: SISMONDI AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CRITICAL SCHOOL — I: THE AIM AND METHOD OF POLITICAL ECONOMY — II: SISMONDI’S CRITICISM OF OVER-PRODUCTION AND COMPETITION — III: THE DIVORCE OF LAND FROM LABOUR AS THE CAUSE OF PAUPERISM AND OF CRISES — IV: SISMONDI’S REFORM PROJECTS. HIS INFLUENCE UPON THE HISTORY OF DOCTRINES — CHAPTER II: SAINT-SIMON, THE SAINT-SIMONIANS, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF COLLECTIVISM — I: SAINT-SIMON AND INDUSTRIALISM — II: THE SAINT-SIMONIANS AND THEIR CRITICISM OF PRIVATE PROPERTY — III: THE IMPORTANCE OF SAINT-SIMONISM IN THE HISTORY OF DOCTRINES — CHAPTER III: THE ASSOCIATIVE SOCIALISTS — I: ROBERT OWEN — II: CHARLES FOURIER — III: LOUIS BLANC — CHAPTER IV: FRIEDRICH LIST AND THE NATIONAL SYSTEM OF POLITICAL ECONOMY — I: LIST’S IDEAS IN RELATION TO THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN GERMANY — II: SOURCES OF LIST’S INSPIRATION. HIS INFLUENCE UPON SUBSEQUENT PROTECTIONIST DOCTRINES. — III: LIST’S REAL ORIGINALITY — CHAPTER V: PROUDHON AND THE SOCIALISM OF 1848 — I: CRITICISM OF PRIVATE PROPERTY AND SOCIALISM — II: THE REVOLUTION OF 1848 AND THE DISCREDIT OF SOCIALISM — III: THE EXCHANGE BANK THEORY — IV: PROUDHON’S INFLUENCE AFTER 1848
7. 7.BOOK III: LIBERALISM — CHAPTER I: THE OPTIMISTS — I: THE THEORY OF SERVICE-VALUE — II: THE LAW OF FREE UTILITY AND RENT — III: THE RELATION OF PROFITS TO WAGES — IV: THE SUBORDINATION OF PRODUCER TO CONSUMER — V: THE LAW OF SOLIDARITY — CHAPTER II: THE APOGEE AND DECLINE OF THE CLASSICAL SCHOOL. JOHN STUART MILL — I: THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS — II: MILL’S INDIVIDUALIST-SOCIALIST PROGRAMME — III: MILL’S SUCCESSORS
8. 8.BOOK IV: THE DISSENTERS — CHAPTER I: THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL AND THE CONFLICT OF METHODS — I: THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL — II: THE CRITICAL IDEAS OF THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL — III: THE POSITIVE IDEAS OF THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL — CHAPTER II: STATE SOCIALISM — I: THE ECONOMISTS’ CRITICISM OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE — II: THE SOCIALISTIC ORIGIN OF STATE SOCIALISM. RODBERTUS AND LASSALLE — III: STATE SOCIALISM—PROPERLY SO CALLED — CHAPTER III: MARXISM — I: KARL MARX [964] — II: THE MARXIAN SCHOOL — III: THE MARXIAN CRISIS AND THE NEO-MARXIANS — CHAPTER IV: DOCTRINES THAT OWE THEIR INSPIRATION TO CHRISTIANITY — I: LE PLAY’S SCHOOL — II: SOCIAL CATHOLICISM — III: SOCIAL PROTESTANTISM — IV: THE MYSTICS
9. 9.BOOK V: RECENT DOCTRINES — CHAPTER I: THE HEDONISTS — I: THE PSEUDO-RENAISSANCE OF THE CLASSICAL SCHOOL — II: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCHOOL — III: THE MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL [1119] — IV: CRITICISM OF THE HEDONISTIC DOCTRINES — CHAPTER II: THE THEORY OF RENT AND ITS APPLICATIONS — I: THE THEORETICAL EXTENSION OF THE CONCEPT RENT — II: UNEARNED INCREMENT AND THE PROPOSAL TO CONFISCATE RENT BY MEANS OF TAXATION — III: SYSTEMS OF LAND NATIONALISATION — IV: SOCIALIST EXTENSIONS OF THE DOCTRINE OF RENT — CHAPTER III: THE SOLIDARISTS — I: THE CAUSES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOLIDARISM — II: THE SOLIDARIST THESIS — III: THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF SOLIDARIST DOCTRINES [1272] — IV: CRITICISM — CHAPTER IV: THE ANARCHISTS — I: STIRNER’S PHILOSOPHICAL ANARCHISM AND THE CULT OF THE INDIVIDUAL — II: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ANARCHISM AND THE CRITICISM OF AUTHORITY — III: MUTUAL AID AND THE ANARCHIST CONCEPTION OF SOCIETY — IV: REVOLUTION
10. 10.CONCLUSION
11. 11.FOOTNOTES
12. 12.INDEX

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