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1 online resource |
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John Stuart Mill's analysis of capitalism and the road to socialism / Helen McCabe -- "The right to aspire to everything" : entering the capitalist economy in nineteenth-century France / Emily C. Teising -- From utopian socialism to utopian capitalism in the American individualist republic / Susan Love Brown -- The divine right of things : on the "impersonal dependence" of capitalism / Paul Christopher Gray -- Rediscovering inequality : from Bush to Piketty / Leonard Williams, John Deal and Matthew Hendryx -- The capitalism, Christian communism and communitarian socialism of New Harmony's founders George Rapp and Robert Owen / Donald E. Pitzer -- Alternative currency, Warren's "Time store" and an inquiry into Arendtian labor / Robert Geroux -- Proudhon as a guide to socialism with a human face / Neil Wright -- Cybernetic socialism and the technological singularity / Ted Goertzel -- Engels, Owen and utopianism -- then and now / Joe White -- Seeking a better life : a study of utopian communities proposed by Robert Owen and Edward Bellamy / Annette M. Magid -- Utopia and apocalypse now : (re)producing meta-narrative in America / Jeremy Buesink -- Utopia and the Marxian critique of political economy / David F. Ruccio |
| Summary |
A New Social Question: Capitalism, Socialism and Utopia brings together a selection of papers presented at the conference on "Capitalism and Socialism: Utopia, Globalization and Revolution" at New Harmony, Indiana, in 2014. New Harmony is best known as the site of industrialist Robert Owen's experiment in communal living in 1825, and it was Owen's legacy that drew scholars from across the Atlantic. Owen's work and his experiment at New Harmony again have currency as the world looks back on the 2008 economic crisis and as "socialism," seemingly banished with the failure of experiments in Easter |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Capitalism -- Congresses
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Socialism -- Congresses
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Utopias -- Congresses
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Capitalism
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Socialism
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Utopias
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harison, Casey
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| ISBN |
1443886319 |
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9781443886314 |
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