Political Economy and the Labour Party: The Economics of Democratic Socialism 1884-2005

ISBN-13: 9780415328814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 340 str.

Noel Thompson

Opis

Presenting a study of the British socialist political economy and its influence on the British Labour Party, this is the second edition of the American Library Association's 'Outstanding Academic Book' award winner. This book is intended for students taking courses on the history of political and economic thought.

Spis treści

Part 1: 1884-1929  1. British Marxism, State Socialism and Anarcho-Communism  2. Fabian Political Economy  3. Guild Socialism  4. Liberal Socialism and the Challenge to Fabianism  5. R.H. Tawney: The Political Economy of Ethical Socialism  6. The Political Economy of Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden  7. The Political Economy of the Labour Party, 1918-1929  Part 2: 1929-1945  8. Labour in Office, 1929-1931  9. Stabilising Capitalism to Socialist Ends  10. Building a Socialist Economy: Planning the Market and Public Ownership  Part 3: 1945-1970  11. Theory into Policy, 1945-1951  12. Socialism in an Age of Affluence, 1945-1964  13. Political Economy and Party Policy, 1951-1970  Part 4: 1970-2005  14. Rethinking Socialism: Towards an Alternative Economic Strategy  15. Liberal Socialism Revised: The 1970s  16. The Alternative Economic Strategy and After, 1972-87  17. Liberal Socialism Rejuvenated, the 1980s  18. Towards a New Labour Political Economy  19. New Labour Triumphant  20. Conclusion

O autorze

Noel Thompson is Professor of History and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is a respected historian of Labour's economic thinking and, more generally, of socialist and anti-capitalist political economy in Britain.