Building a Social Science

Kirsten Madden serves as a professor in the Economics Department of Millersville University. Her two major emphases have been quality teaching and maintaining an active research agenda. Over her career, her research publications span four main subjects: methodology in the history of econometrics, economics pedagogy, the history of women's economic thought, and most recently, the history of cooperative economic thought and ethics. She served as lead editor for The Routledge Handbook of the History of Women's Economic Thought. Joseph Persky is a Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research has been largely in two areas: history of economic thought and urban/regional economics. In both fields he has tried to focus on questions of inequality and the struggle for a more just society. His most recent book is The Political Economy of Progress: John Stuart Mill and Modern Radicalism, also in the Oxford Studies in the History of Economics. Over many years, he has worked with unions and community groups.

Introduction to the Economics of Cooperation

Part I. The First Theorists

Chapter 2 Robert Owen's Cooperative Vision

Chapter 3 To Owen's Left: William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler

Chapter 4 The Cooperative Socialism of J. S. Mill and Harriet Taylor

Part II. Paths: Workshops, Stores and the Domestic Economy

Chapter 5 Cooperation in Christ's Kingdom

Chapter 6 Redirecting the Surplus through Consumer Cooperation

Chapter 7 The Women's Cooperative Guild

Chapter 8 Profit Sharing

Part III. Toward System

Chapter 9 Creativity, Craft, and Cooperation
Nicholas Armstrong, Co-author

Chapter 10 Guild Socialism: The Integration of Cooperative Themes

Part IV. Reflections and Reconstructions

Chapter 11 Reflections from Left, Right, and Center

Chapter 12 Reconstructions