Geschichte der volkswirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen

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Identifikator:: 1010911953

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-20641

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Gide, Charles http://d-nb.info/gnd/117543985; Rist, Charles http://d-nb.info/gnd/172332966

Title:: Geschichte der volkswirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen

Edition:: Nach der zweiten durchgesehenen und verbesserten Ausgabe, herausgegeben von Franz Oppenheimer

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Verlag von Gustav Fischer

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 828 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Erstes Buch. Die Begründer

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X TRANSLATORS PREFACE. has in some cases been pushed too far, and that the conflict of individual self-interests cannot always be relied upon to produce the welfare of the whole. These ideas are more in the nature of a feeling or sentiment than of a reasoned conviction. A critical survey of the socialistic thought of Europe, such as M. de Laveleye has made, is certainly well calculated to assist the formation of a rational judgment. There are, however. Socialists of several types in England too, and, accordingly, I have ventured to add to M. de Laveleye’s account of European Socialism, a chapter on con temporary Socialism in England. In this chapter I have endeavoured to give a faithful account of the three main socialistic movements at present stirring amongst us, viz. the movement for the Nationalization of the Land, which has taken more forms than one, but which is mainly associated with the name of Henry George ; the Christian Socialist movement, of which the Guild of St. Matthew, marching far beyond the position taken up by Maurice and Kingsley, represents the van ; and the thorough-going Collectivist agitation of the Social Democratic Federation, which aims at the complete overthrow of the existing social, economical, and political order, and the concentration of the land, and all the instruments of production of the country in the hands of a democratic State. These movements may as yet be small in comparison with some of those on the continent described by M. de Laveleye ; nevertheless, as a German writer, speaking of another matter, once said, “ Sirius may be larger than the Sun, but he does not ripen our grapes,” and in the same way to English readers, an account of what is going on, perhaps without their knowing it, in their midst, comparatively slight as the movements may be, ought to be of some interest. The time is indeed at hand when England, as well as other democracies, if she is in any way to control her destinies, must make up her mind not only as to the true goal of social

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