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The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848 (Paperback, Revised)
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The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848 (Paperback, Revised)
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For those who lived through it, Britain's Industrial Revolution was
experienced as the Machinery Question. It was far from clear to
contemporaries whether the first forms of mechanized factory
production heralded an inevitable economic revolution, or were but
one course among several which might be modified or eventually
rejected altogether, Opinion about the necessity or beneficence of
machines was profoundly divided at all levels of society; the often
acrimonious debate that arose reverberated through economic,
political, cultural and intellectual life. Crucially important for
the development of this debate, because it was the source of the
very terms of discussion, was the new discipline of Political
Economy. The major contention of this book is that the Machinery
Question was also the making of Political Economy. Dr Berg argues
that technical change was one of the foremost theoretical concerns
of Ricardo and his successors, and the foundation for their
distinctly optimistic view of the future. She shows how the
Machinery Question fostered the social conditions in which the
status of Political Economy as a discipline was established, and
concludes that by the 1840s the divisions over machinery were
firmly embedded in the great rival creeds of the future, liberalism
and socialism. The book will interest teachers and students of
British social and economic history, the history of economic
thought and the history of science and technology.
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