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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783196503321

Autore

Hutchinson Frances <1941, >

Titolo

The political economy of social credit and guild socialism / / Frances Hutchinson and Brian Burkitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-75582-1

1-134-75583-X

1-280-40795-6

9786610407958

0-203-02962-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 14

Altri autori (Persone)

BurkittBrian

Disciplina

335/.15

Soggetti

Social credit - History

Guild socialism - History

Sustainable development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-191) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; THE DOUGLAS/NEW AGE TEXTS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT; DOUGLAS/NEW AGE ECONOMICS; DOUGLAS/NEW AGE PHILOSOPHY; ORTHODOX/NEOCLASSICAL REACTIONS; THE LABOUR PARTY AND SOCIAL CREDIT; SOCIALISM, LABOURISM AND SOCIAL CREDIT; THE SOCIAL CREDIT MOVEMENT TO 1930; THE SOCIAL CREDIT MOVEMENT AFTER 1930; THE ALBERTA EXPERIMENT; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work approaches the phenomenon of guild socialism from a new perspective, focusing on the Douglas Social Credit movement. It explores the key ideas, gives an overview of the main theories and traces their subsequent history. Thoroughly researched, it provides original material relevant to the field of political economy. This early approach to non-equilibrium economics reveals the extent of the incompatibility between capitalist growth economics and social and environmental sustainability.