John Stuart Mill, Victorian Liberalism, and the Failure of Co-Operative Production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8958181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jocelyn Paul Betts (Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 153-174 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x15000011 |
| OpenAlex | W2255637661 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
John Stuart Mill's support for, and predictions of, co-operative production have been taken as a coherent wedding of liberal and socialist concerns, and as drawing together later nineteenth-century political economy and working-class radicalism. Despite its evident significance, the alliance of political economy and co-operative production was, however, highly conflicted, contested, and short-lived, in ways that help to shed light on the construction of knowledge of society in nineteenth-century Britain. Mill's vision should be seen as developed in contrast to the sociological and historical perspectives of Auguste Comte and Thomas Carlyle, as an attempt to hold together political economy as a valid form of knowledge with the hope of a new social stage in which commerce would be imbued with public spirit. This ideal thus involved debate about competing social futures and the tools of prediction, as well as entering debates within political economy where it was equally embattled. Even Mill's own economic logic tended more towards support of profit-sharing than co-operative production, and hopes for the latter became significantly less persuasive with the introduction of the concept of the entrepreneur into mainstream British economics during the 1870s and 1880s
Alliance · Economics · Futures contract · Liberalism · Mainstream · Mill · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Legal and Social Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence
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A Reconsideration of the Development and Structure of John Stuart Mill's Socialism
Profit-Sharing and Cooperative Production
Auguste Comte and the Saint-Simonians
Mill's `Socialism
Justice, Independence, and Industrial Democracy
How can a paradigmatic liberal call himself a socialist? The case of John Stuart Mill
Labor, Democracy, Utility, and Mill's Critique of Private Property
A Reconsideration of the Development and Structure of John Stuart Mill's Socialism
The Success of Mill's Principles
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |