Category
Industries. Land use. Labor
Yves Guyot
Where and Why Public Ownership has Failed
One of several books Guyot wrote attacking socialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this volume, drawing upon his experience as the French Minister for Public Works, Guyot discusses the differences between public and private trading, with reference to railways, trams, public housing, and various government monopolies, and examines the negative financial, administrative, political, and social consequeces, such as disorder, corruption, and waste.
Open the reader →William Stanley Jevons
The Coal Question; An Inquiry concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal-mines
A warning that Britain would face rising costs for coal as other nations industrialized and that this would have a deep impact on the British economy and way of life.
Open the reader →Thomas Mackay
A Policy of Free Exchange. Essays by Various Writers on the Economical and Social Aspects of Free Exchange and Kindred Subjects
The companion volume to *A Plea for Liberty* which continued the argument against the Fabian Socialists and for a policy of strict non-intervention in the economy by the government.
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