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Voices of the industrial revolution: Selected readings from the liberal economists and their critics.

By:

Bowditch, John [ed.]

Contributor(s):

Ramsland, Clement [joint ed.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Ann Arbor paperbacks ; AA53Publication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1961].Description: 187 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmSubject(s):

Economics

LOC classification:

HB31 .B6 1961

Summary: Studies social and economic issues through the writings of great thinkers of the age: Quesnay, Bentham, Malthus, Ricardo, Smith, Marx, Engels, and others.Summary: "The economic and social issues of the Industrial Revolution, discussed by the great thinkers of the age: Quesnay, Bentham, Malthus, Ricardo, Smith, Marx, Engels, and many others. The way from the spinning jenny to the Communist state is revealed in the writings of these men. Mathus' discussion of population, Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, the cold logic of the financial wizard David Ricardo, the shocking records of contemporary child labor investigations are the stepping stones of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. This is a textbook for the twentieth century written by the nineteenth." -- from back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks	The Roscoe Proctor Collection	HB 31 .B6 1961 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		NPML19030009

Studies social and economic issues through the writings of great thinkers of the age: Quesnay, Bentham, Malthus, Ricardo, Smith, Marx, Engels, and others.

"The economic and social issues of the Industrial Revolution, discussed by the great thinkers of the age: Quesnay, Bentham, Malthus, Ricardo, Smith, Marx, Engels, and many others. The way from the spinning jenny to the Communist state is revealed in the writings of these men. Mathus' discussion of population, Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, the cold logic of the financial wizard David Ricardo, the shocking records of contemporary child labor investigations are the stepping stones of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. This is a textbook for the twentieth century written by the nineteenth." -- from back cover.

From the library of Roscoe & Oleta Proctor

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