The Science of Society (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Stephen Pearl Andrews

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330183541 ISBN 13 : 9781330183540

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

The Cost Principle offers a bold rethinking of price, ownership, and fairness in everyday exchange.

This concise work argues that true justice in trade comes not from how much benefit one side gains, but from the costs borne by each party. It frames price as a moral and social question, aiming to move commerce toward more equitable, humane practices. The book challenges traditional price ideas and invites readers to consider how ownership, labor, and value are connected. It presents a theory of exchange that emphasizes cost as the key to fair dealings and explores how such a principle could reshape relationships between workers, capital, and markets.

• How cost should influence the terms of trade and ownership.
• Ways to reduce power imbalances between labor and capital in daily exchanges.
• How a principled approach to price might foster greater social harmony.
• Potential paths for adopting a common standard of fairness in commerce.

Ideal for readers of economic philosophy, social reform writing, and anyone curious about how principles could reshape ordinary commerce. This edition helps clarify a complex idea and shows why fairness in price matters beyond profits.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This little treatise on the True Constitution of Government was delivered as one of the regular course of lectures before the New York Mechanics I nstitute, for the present winter. It is now published as the introductory number of a contemplated series of publications, presenting certain new principles of society, which it is the belief of the author are eminently adapted to supply the felt want of the present day for an adequate solution of the existing social disturbances. For the principles in question, either as original discoveries, or else as presented in a new light, as solvents of the knotty questions which are now puzzling the most capacious minds and afflicting the most benevolent hearts of Christendom, the author confesses his very great indebtedness, and he believes the world will yet gladly confess its indebtedness, to the genius of Josiah Warren, of I ndiana, who has been engaged for more than twenty years in testing, almost in solitude, the practical operation, in the education of children, in the sphere of commerce, and otherwise, of the principles which we are now for the first time presenting prominently to the public. It has been the belief of the author, that there are in the ranks of those who are denominated Conservatives many who sympathize deeply with the objects of radical reform, but who have never identified themselves with the movements in that direction, either because they have not seen that the practical meas ures proposed by the advocates of reform contained the elements of success, or else because they have distinctly perceived or intuitively felt that they did not.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330183541
• ISBN 13: 9781330183540
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 261
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