In Political Economy and the Labour Party, Noel Thompson gives an informative and stimulating outline of the ideas and theories that have shaped the party's economic policy since 1900.' - Times Literary Supplement
A new edition of the American Library Association's Outstanding Academic Book' award winner.
This new volume brings this study of the rich tradition of British socialist political economy and its influence on the British Labour Party fully up-to-date.
Surveying the Labour tradition from the...
In Political Economy and the Labour Party, Noel Thompson gives an informative and stimulating outline of the ideas and theories th...
The work details the emergence, in the post-Napoleonic War period, of a growing popular interest in the critical potentialities of political economy. It considers why this occurred and discusses how the conceptual and analytical tools of political economy were utilised to formulate a critique of early industrial capitalism. The book examines the theories of labour exploitation and capitalist crisis which represented the essence of that critique both as they were elaborated by early-nineteenth-century British anti-capitalist and socialist writers and as they were popularised by writers in the...
The work details the emergence, in the post-Napoleonic War period, of a growing popular interest in the critical potentialities of political economy. ...
Studying John Strachey, an important 20th-century British Left intellectual, this book provides a detailed exposition of his intellectual evolution set in its historical context, thus highlighting the option, pressures, dilemmas and pitfalls besetting British socialists in the turbulent times of the inter- and post-war periods.
Studying John Strachey, an important 20th-century British Left intellectual, this book provides a detailed exposition of his intellectual evolution se...
