The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815-1848

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.Berg, Maxine is the author of 'The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815-1848', published 1982 under ISBN 9780521287593 and ISBN 0521287596.