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The ''Heterodox Traditions'' in Economics began when [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]],  a Swiss political philosopher of the Enlightenment and purported father of the French Revolution, wrote his book ''Discourse on Political Economy'' (Economie Politique) (1755)<ref name=ROSSEAU1>''l'ENCYCLOPÉDIE,OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNÉ DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES MÉTIERS par une Société de Gens de Lettres''. Mis en ordre & publié par M. DIDEROT, de l'Académie des Sciences & des Belles-Lettres de Prusse;Paris, Briasson..., 1755</ref> which became the entry on the subject in Diderot's Encyclopedie.


==Utopians and Socialists==
'''Heterodox economics''' refers to a relatively small but growing ''movement'' among economists who are seeking to gain acceptance of their ideas into mainstream economic thinking and scholarly discourse.  Thinkers within the movement seek to organize various economic traditions, including post-Keynesianism, old institutionalism, feminist, social, and Marxian and Austrian economics under its new umbrella, according to the movement's view of what such traditions hold in common. In doing so, the heterodox economics movement seeks to distinguish its conceptualizations from what it views as "mainstream economics", which the movement engages yet opposes on some fundamental concepts.


===Rousseauvian Socialism===
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==History of the movement==


====Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1788====
==Views==


'''Jean-Jacques Rousseau''' wrote [http://www.constitution.org/jjr/polecon.htm ''Discourse on Political Economy'' (1755)], an article which contains no obvious economic theory and is merely a pre-taste of the political philosophy he was to lay out in his [http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm ''Social Contract'' (1762)]. His earlier polemical [http://www.constitution.org/jjr/ineq.htm ''Discourse on Inequality'' (1754)] - which argued that civilization had destroyed man's ''"natural goodness"'' and thus was the source on inequality - is prescient of the Marxian doctrine of ''"alienation"''.
==Criticisms==
 
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Rousseau's work had little direct impact on economics, but exerted  a substantial indirect influence. He shared with his fellow Enlightenment philosophers the faith in the existence of a ''"natural state"'' of society - which one could thereby extend to social equilibrium and ''"natural value"'' concepts - which were very much ingrained in the thinking of the [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/physioc.htm Physiocrats] and [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/smith.htm Adam Smith]. His appeal to this state via his ''"natural man"'', the ''"noble savage"'' is reminiscent of the analogies formed in modern economics.
 
A thorough pessimist about existing human society, Rousseau recognized that this ''"natural state"'' was perverted by ''"civilization"'' and that the appetites and motivations of civilized man had been consequently corrupted and constructed by his interaction with society - ''"Man is born free and is everywhere in chains"'', he wrote in his famous opening to the ''Social Contract'' <ref name=SOCIALCONTRACT>[http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm ROSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. ''The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right''. 1762.<small>Translated by G. D. H. Cole, public domain. Rendered into HTML and text by Jon Roland of the Constitution Society</small>.]</ref> 
 
The "natural state", Rousseau claimed, could only be achieved via wholesale social reform which envisioned a collective state with extra-personal dedication to a ''"General Will"''''. Only in such a state, Rousseau asserted, could the true ''"natural man"'' exist and be truly free. It is these last observations that make Rousseau the father of ''Socialism'' (utopian and otherwise) - and earned him much emnity from later anti-Socialists such as [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/hayek.htm Hayek].
 
His publications got him arrested and his books were burned throughout France. He ran off to England, being hosted and supported by [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/hume.htm David Hume] where he wrote his polemical ''Letters from the Mountain'' <ref name=MOUTAIN> ROSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. ''Letter to Beaumont, Letters Written from the Mountain, and Related Writings''. .Editor: Univ Pr of New England; 2002; ISBN 1584651644 .</ref> Soon he returned to France, where he wandered in poverty until his death in 1778.
 
====Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi, 1773-1842====
 
'''Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi'''] was a French historian, an early socialist and great rival of [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/say.htm Jean-Baptiste Say] and the [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/frenchlib.htm French Liberal School.]  Sismondi was against the capitalist industrial system, which he viewed as being detrimental to the interests of the poor and particularly prone to crisis brought by an insufficient general demand for goods. 
 
His underconsumption thesis was shared by [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/malthus.htm Robert Malthus], and sparked off the [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/essays/classic/glut.htm General Glut Controversy] of the 1820s where their theories were pitted against those of [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/say.htm Say], [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/ricardo.htm Ricardo] and the [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/ricardian.htm Classicals].
 
Sismondi wrote, among other books, [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k89694m.notice ''Nouveaux principes d'économie politique ou De la richesse dans ses rapports avec la population''], [http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/sismondi/poliec ''Political Economy'' (1815)], [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61987t.notice ''Examen de la Constitution françoise'' (1815)]
 
===Utopian Socialism===
 
====St. Thomas More 1477-78? - 1535====
 
'''St. Thomas More''', saint, knight, Lord Chancellor of England, author and martyr, was born in London, 7 February, 1477-78; executed at Tower Hill, 6 July, 1535.
 
Of his writings the most famous is the [http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/more/utopia-contents.html ''Utopia''] <ref name=UTOPIA>[http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/more/utopia-contents.html MORE, St. Thomas. ''Utopia''. New York: Ideal Commonwealths. P.F. Collier & Son; The Colonial Press; 1901.<small> This book is in public domain;  Internet Wiretap; July 1993. Prepared by Kirk Crady (kcrady@polaris.cv.nrao.edu), first published in 1516</small>.]</ref>
 
The volume recounts the fictitious travels of one Raphael Hythlodaye, a mythical character, who, in the course of a voyage to America, was left behind near Cape Frio and thence wandered on till he chanced upon the ''Island of Utopia'' ("nowhere") in which he found an ideal constitution in operation.
 
The whole work is really an exercise of the imagination with much brilliant satire upon the world of More's own day. Real persons, such as Peter Giles, Cardinal Morton, and More himself, take part in the dialogue with Hythlodaye, so that an air of reality pervades the whole which leaves the reader sadly puzzled to detect where truth ends and fiction begins, and has led not a few to take the book seriously. But this is precisely what More intended, and there can be no doubt that he would have been delighted at entrapping William Morris, who discovered in it a complete gospel of Socialism; or Cardinal Zigliara, who denounced it as "no less foolish than impious"; as he must have been with his own contemporaries who proposed to hire a ship and send out missionaries to his non-existent island. The book ran through a number of editions in the original Latin version and, within a few years, was translated into German, Italian, French, Dutch, Spanish, and English.
 
A collected edition of More's English works was published by William Rastell, his nephew, at London in 1557; it has never been reprinted and is now rare and costly. The first collected edition of the Latin Works appeared at Basle in 1563; a more complete collection was published at Louvain in 1565 and again in 1566. In 1689 the most complete edition of all appeared at Frankfort-on-Main, and Leipzig. Lakowski compiled a full bybliography of More's writtings, see: [http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-2/lakomore.html LAKOWSKI, Romuald Ian. ''A Bibliography of Thomas More's Utopia''; Early Modern Literary Studies 1.2 (1995): 6.1-10]
 
====John Locke, 1632-1704====
 
'''John Locke''' was an empiricist philosopher, [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/optimist.htm#natural natural law] social thinker and Whig political theorist, John Locke was nonetheless a rather traditional Mercantilist in his economics. Locke developed a ''theory of money'' in his 1691 ''Considerations'' <ref name=CONSEQUENCES>[http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/locke/consid.txt LOCKE, John. ''Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money''. London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row; 1691]</ref>, after Child's promoted low interes rate.
 
Locke introduced the concept of ''"money as convention"'' as well as, following [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/bodin.htm Bodin], the main elements of the [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/essays/money/quantity.htm ''QuantityTheory of Money''], notably the concept of ''"velocity"''.
 
In his 1690 [http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/locke/ ''Treatises''] <ref name=TREATISES>[http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/locke/ LOCKE, John. ''Two Treatises on Government''. London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row; 1698.]</ref> , he proposes a quite explicit ''labor theory of value''.  In his 1692 [http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/locke/consid.txt ''Consequences''] <ref name=CONSEQUENCES>[http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/locke/consid.txt LOCKE, John. ''Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money''. London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row; 1691]</ref> Locke adheres to a ''demand-based theory of value''. [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/law.htm John Law (1705)] did much to clarify the confusion between them.
 
Locke also proposed a theory of property in his 1690 ''Treatises'' <ref name=TREATISES>[http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/locke/ LOCKE, John. ''Two Treatises on Government''. London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row; 1698.]</ref>.  The right to property, Locke claims,  is derived from the labor of those who work it.  More specifically, he perceives that as ''"labor"'' is naturally ''"owned"'' by the person in whom it is embodied, then consequently anything that labor is applied to, is similarly ''"owned"'' by the laborer -- a rather [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/marxian.htm ''proto-Marxian''] notion.  Locke's ''"natural labor theory of property"'' stands in stark contrast to that of [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/hobbes.htm Hobbes], who conceived of property merely as a State guarantee, and of [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/optimist.htm#grotius Grotius], who contended that property emerges from social consent.
 
====Robert Owen, 1771-1858====
 
'''Robert Owen''', an utopian socialist,  founded the famous [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRowen.htm ''New Lanark Mills''] in Scotland as an example of the viability of co-operative factory communities. <ref name=LANARK1>[http://www.robert-owen.com/ OWEN, Robert. ''Extract from Robert Owen's "Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark" New Year's Day, 1816''.]</ref>
 
Many industrialists actually visited these ''"model factories"'' and some even adopted parts of Owen's system. Owen attempted to extend these into agriculture - advocating collective farming, as in New Harmony, Indiana. Although most of these efforts failed, he continued on his social work -
becoming the head of one of the largest trade union federations in Britain in 1843.
 
====Étienne Cabet, 1788-1856====
 
'''Étienne Cabet''' was a lawyer and journalist and a politician of the left-wing newspaper, La Populaire.  His political activities led to his exile in England, after being condemned to death in 1834. He published [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k86104q.item ''Lettres sur la crise actuelle''], six letters in one volume.
 
In his 1839 utopian novel, [http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/cabet.htm ''Voyage en Icarie''] <ref name=ICARIE>[http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/cabet.htm CABET, Étienne. ''Voyage en Icarie''. Augustus M Kelley Pubs,; 1973. ISBN 0678010226]</ref>  Cabet introduces '''communism''' as the greatest realization of democracy and the direct descendent of Christian principles.
 
====François-Marie-Charles Fourier, 1772-1837====
 
::''"Le bonheur ne consiste qu'à satisfaire ses passions... Le bonheur, sur lequel on a tant raisonné ou plutôt tant déraisonné, consiste à avoir beaucoup de passions et beaucoup de moyens de les satisfaire."'' <small> Fourier</small>
 
'''Charles Fourier''', a French socialist philosopher, is the creator of ''Fourierism'', a moral system of social organization based upon what he called the '' passional attractions''. Fourier was an outright utopian: anti-state, anti-industry, anti-liberal, anti-competition and anti-urban He distanced himself from the socialists who wanted the abolition of private property.
 
A contemporary of [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/saintsimon.htm Saint-Simon], the "half mad" Fourier envisaged a utopian society in ''"natural harmony"'' with the cosmos that could be achieved by non-violent means. He advocated the setting up phalanxes, a type of production and consumption co-operative enterprise or society.  Through his main publications and  the monthly review ''Réforme industrietlle'' and the daily newspaper ''Démocratie pacifique'', Fourier collected numerous followers, many of whom attempted (and failed) at setting up these mini-societies.  He was highly disliked by the [[Marxians]].
 
In the United States, ''Fourierism'' was introduced to the American public in 1840 when a New Yorker named Albert Brisbane published a compendium of Fourier's writings entitled ''Social Destiny of Man: or Association and Reorganization of Industry'' <ref name=BRISBANE>BRISBANE, Albert. ''Social Destiny of Man: or Association and Reorganization of Industry''. Philadelphia: Dial Essays; 1841; 12mo. pp. 480.</ref>. Brisbane also posted a column in ''The New York Tribune'' in March of 1842 and it reached the Transcendentalists in particular with Emerson's essay on [http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/fourierism.html ''"Fourierism and Socialists"''] <ref name=EMERSON>[http://www.emersoncentral.com/ EMERSON, Ralph Waldo ''Texts'' <small>searchable</small>]</ref>.
 
Fourier developed his ideas in the following publications: ''Théorie des quatre mouvements et des destinées générales'', 1808, in-8°; ''Traité de l'association domestique et agricole'', Paris, 1822, 2 vol. in-8°; ''Sommaire de la théorie d'association agricole, ou attraction industrielle'', Besançon, 1828, in-8°; ''Le Nouveau monde industriel, ou invention du procédé d'industrie attrayante et combinée, distribuée en séries passionnées'', Paris, 1831, in-8°: ''La Fausse Industrie morcelée, répugnante, mensongère, et l'antidote, l'industrie naturelle combinée, attrayante, véridique, donnant quadruple produit'', Paris, 1835-36, 2 vol. in-12.
 
===Ricardian Socialism===
 
====Introduction====
 
'''The Classical Labor Theory of Value:'''
 
[[Adam Smith]] stated: ''"The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.... Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things."'' However Smith's formulation was not very clear cut: he also said that the value of a commodity in one's possession as consisting of ''"the quantity of the labour which he can command...."'' Smith, on other passages, explained the market price of labor as ''the source of its effect on exchange value''. <ref name=INQUIRY>[http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN.html SMITH, Adam (1723-1790). ''An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations''. London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., ed. Edwin Cannan, 1904. Fifth edition. <small>(Downloadable)</small>]</ref>
 
[[David Ricardo]], in his ''Principles of Political Economy and Taxation'' <ref name=RICARDO>[http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/ricardo/prin/index.html RICARDO, David. ''The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation''. 1815 (third ed. 1821). Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University.]</ref> cleared Smith's early inconsistencies: ''"The value of a commodity, or the quantity of any other commodity for which it will exchange, depends on the relative quantity of labour which is necessary for its production, and not as the greater or less compensation which is paid for that labour"''.
 
The emerging socialist movement seized on the political implications of this conclusion.
 
::''"So if cloth or cotton goods be divided between the workman and his employer, the larger the proportion given to the former, the less remains for the latter,"'' socialists began to claim. This gave origin to the movement called ''"Ricardian Socialists"''.
 
[[Engels]] said:
 
::''"Insofar as modern socialism, no matter of what tendency, starts out from bourgeois political economy, it almost without exception takes up the Ricardian theory of value. The two propositions which Ricardo proclaimed in 1817 right at the beginning of his Principles, 1) that the value of any commodity is purely and solely determined by the quantity of labour required for its production, and 2) that the product of the entire social labor is divided among the three classes: landowners (rent), capitalists (profit), and workers (wages)--these two propositions had ever since 1821 been utilized in England for socialist conclusions, and in part with such pointedness and resolution that this literature, which had then almost been forgotten and was to a large extent only rediscovered by Marx, remained surpassed until the appearance of ''Capital''.
 
::''"The actual extent to which Marx's theory of value is a straightforward outgrowth of Ricardo's, and to which it was a preexisting Hegelian philosophy with Ricardian elements grafted on, is an issue in dispute.7 But for the present purpose, we will treat Marx's theory of value as relevant to our study to the extent that it is amenable to a Ricardian approach."'' <ref name=ENGELS1>[http://www.marx2mao.com/M&E/PP47.html#pref1 ENGELS, Friederich. ''Preface to the first German Edition''; ''The Poverty of Philosophy: Answer to the "Philosophy of Poverty by M. Proudhon''. Paris and Brussels in 1847 <small> first published in pamphlet form</small>]</ref>
 
=====Dr. Charles Hall, 1745-1825=====
 
'''Dr. Charles Hall''' on his book ''The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States'' (1805), one of the earliest works of British socialism, took the Ricardian ''labor theory of value'' to its logical extreme - i.e. the concept of ''labor exploitation''.
 
Hall draws a contrast between civilization and savagery, and becomes immediately struck by the greater inequalities in the former. Contemporary socialists often misquoted his claims, exagerating and inventing for effect. (e.g. only 1/8th of total product was kept by labor).
 
=====Thomas Hodgskin, 1787-1869=====
 
'''Thomas Hodgskin''' was on of the earliest anarchists. On his book ''Popular Political Economy'' (1828), perhaps the best textbook in socialist economics at the time, Hodgskin took the Ricardian ''labor theory of value'' to its exploitation logic, but preferred to criticize the social organization rather than recommend any utopian visions for it.
 
Curiously Hodgskin later became involved with ''"The Economist"'', the famous British weekly publication, founded in 1843 by a group of  Manchester's textile industrialists, a strong advocate of ''classic liberalism'' and ''laisse-faire'' economic policies.
 
=====John Gray, 1799-1850=====
 
'''John Gray''', a failed businessman, was among the first'' Ricardian Socialists'' to stress the ''"human element"'' in the destructiveness of competition. He recommended co-operative institutions for exchange and production, as a substitute method.
 
Gray wrote ''Lecture on Human Happiness'' (1825), ''The Social System'' (1831), ''Remedy for the Distress of Nature'' (1842) and ''Money"" (1848).
 
=====John Francis Bray, 1809-1895=====
 
'''John Francis Bray''' turned to the Ricardian ''labor exploitation'' thesis and recommended the setting up of worker co-operatives in a communal property system. Bray wrote ''Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy'' (1839) and ''A Voyage from Utopia'' (18??).
 
===Saint-Simonism===
 
====Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, 1760-1825====
 
'''Henri de Saint-Simon''' is the founder of the [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/saintsimon.htm ''"Saint-Simonian"''] movement, a type of semi-mystical ''"Christian-Scientific"'' socialism that pervaded the XIXth Century.
 
Saint-Simon contibutions were crucial for the development of the social sciences:  his call for a ''"science of society"'' on the same standing as the ''natural sciences'', was highly influential on [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/comte.htm Auguste Comte] and the sociologists and was responsible for the initial scientific pretensions of [[economics]]. [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/carlyle.htm Thomas Carlyle], [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/chevalier.htm Michel Chevalier], [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/mill.htm John Stuart Mill]  and  [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/walras.htm Léon Walras] were adepts of ''Saint-Simonism''. 
 
Saint-Simon proposed the reorganization of society with an elite of philosophers, engineers and scientists leading a process of industrialization tamed by their ''"rational"'' Christian-Humanism. His advocacy of a ''"New Christianity"'', a secular humanist religion, was to have scientists as priests. This was actually taken up by two of his followers -- Barthelemy-Prosper Enfantin (1796-1864) and Saint-Amand Bazard (1791-1832) -- and the Simonist movement became influenced by bizarre mysticism and ritual. 
 
Saint-Simon's vision was highly influential on French society ( and more generally, throughout Europe) all through the 19th Century, including the Emperor Napoleon III.  The political highwater-mark of Saint-Simonism was perhaps the French July Revolution of 1830.  But the influence of Saint-Simonism on future versions of socialism was more pronounced.  Saint-Simon's "scientism" was particularly influential on the development of Marxian doctrine -- and,  for that same reason, Saint-Simon was condemned by Hayek (1952). 
 
Saint-Simon was one of the first to identify the process of ''"industrialization"'' in Europe, but his concern with the laboring classes was more reserved, although he streesed the ''"unnaturalness"'' of unemployment.  In general, Saint-Simon's elitism distinguished him from the later more ''"labor-orientated"''  socialist thinkers -- notably those radicalized by the 1848 Revolution, such as Blanc and Proudhon. 
 
Saint-Simon's enthusiasm for the ''"spontaneous harmony"'' of the ''"organism"'' of industrial society has led some to claim that he was really a ''Classical Liberal'' in disguise.  The Saint-Simonian critique on private property was due more to his followers (notably Enfantin) than himself. But Saint-Simon was clearly a ''dirigiste'' in economic policy.
 
The influence of Saint-Simonism on socialism was pronounced. Saint-Simon's ''"scientism"'' was particularly influential on the development of Marxian doctrine, what made Saint-Simon to be condemned by [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/hayek.htm Hayek] (1952).
 
===Revolutionary Anarcho-Socialism===
 
====Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865====
 
'''Pierre-Joseph Proudhon''' was a French socialist-anarchist. To his famous own question: ''"What is property"'', title of his book, <ref name=PROUDHON1>[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ProProp.html PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. ''What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government''. New York: Dover, 1970. <small>Translated from the French by Benj. R. Tucker. Originally published by Humboldt Publishing Company, 1890.</small>.]</ref>, Proudhon would answer: ''"property is theft"''.
 
Proudhon proposed a complete reorganization of society that abolished most of its "trappings", including money and the state itself. He advocated communitarianism as the form of reorganization of society.  He argued that ''"goodwill"'' would emerge naturally once these ''"social constructs"'' were gone. [[Marx]] was one of his most severe critics and wrote  ''Poverty of Philosophy'' <ref name=MARX1>[http://www.marx2mao.com/M&E/PP47.html#pref1 MARX, Karl. ''The Poverty of Philosophy: Answer to the "Philosophy of Poverty by M. Proudhon''. Paris and Brussels in 1847 <small> first published in pamphlet form</small>]</ref> (1847) directly against Proudhon.  Léon Walras (1860) also criticized Proudhon.
 
====Jean-Joseph Louis Blanc, 1813-1882====
 
'''Jean-Joseph Louis Blanc'''  was a radical French socialist. A journalist, Louis Blanc was greatly responsible for unleashing the 1848 Revolution with his 1841 account of the corruption of the orleanist regime. By 1848 Blanc's issued a pamphlet which called for state-fostered industrial employment via producer cooperatives that would replace private industry.
 
Blanc expressed the communist ideal of ''"from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"'', and converted the rebellious Parisian masses to the socialist cause, giving the whole revolution a decidedly more labor-oriented tone. 
 
Blanc was talked by the working classes into seating in the provisional government, a post where he stood very uncomfortably between republicans like Lamartine and radicals like Blanqui, being distrusted by both. 
 
After the fall of the revolutionary government Blanc remained exiled to Britain, until 1871.  Gradually he tempered his radicalism, calling only for State involvement in social programs and income redistribution.  Blanc's ideas were to be very influential on later State socialists like Lassalle.  Blanc refused to endorse the Paris Commune of 1870-1. 
 
Blanc publisehd several books, some very large.  Among his works we can mention: ''L'Organisation du travail''  - excerpts. (1839), ''Lettre sur la terreur'', ''Histoire de dix ans : 1830-1840'',  Vol I to Vol. V (1841), ''Histoire de la révolution française'', 12 vols, 1847-62, ''Le Droit au Travail'' (1848), ''Cathécisme des socialistes'' (1849), ''La révolution de Février au Luxembourg'' (1849), ''Lettres a l'Angleterre, Vol. I , Vol. II'' (1863), ''L'État et la commune'' (1866), ''Histoire de la révolution de 1848'' (1870), ''Histoire de la Constitution du 25 février 1875'' (1882) and ''Quelques vérités économiques'' (1911).
 
====Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, 1814-1876====
 
'''Bakunin''' was an anarchist and a well-known Russian revolutionary. He is and often considered to be one of the "fathers" of modern anarchism.
 
Born in 1814 in Tsarist Russia, Bakunin quickly developed a burning hatred of injustice. At age 21 he resigned from the army and began to mix in democratic circles. Nine years later he met up with radicals like [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/proudhon.htm Proudhon] and [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/marx.htm Marx] in Paris. At this point he had formulated a theory which saw freedom being achieved by a general rising, linked to revolutions in the subject nations.
 
His campaigns for ''"democracy"'' and ''"anti-colonialism"'' made him ''"public enemy number one"'' in the eyes of most European monarchies. In 1848 he was expelled from France for supporting the independence for Poland.
 
Bakunin played a leading role in the May insurrection in Dresden where he was arrested and sentenced to death. The Austrian monarchy also wanted him, so he was extradited and again sentenced to death. But before he could be executed Russia demanded his extradition and he spent the following six years jailed without trial in the Peter and Paul Fortress an then was exiled to Siberia, from where he escaped in 1861.
 
As his ideas developed further and Bakunin became an exponent of ''anarchism''. While agreeing with much of marxian economic theory, he rejected Marx's authoritarian politics he was responsible for the major division within the ''"International"''. His disagreements with Marx caused him to be expelled form the Communist party.
 
While Marx proposed that socialism could be built by taking over the state, Bakunin looked forward to its ''"destruction"'' and the creation of a new society based on free federations of free workers. Taking over the state, Bakunin reasoned, would only replace the old tyrans with new ones, a phenomenon the Russian Revolution of 1917 confirmed.
 
He cautioned the intelectuals against trying to take power and create a ''"dictatorship of the proletariat"''. The notion that a small group of people, no matter how well meaning, could execute a ''"coup d'etat"'' was for Bakunin a heresy against common sense. More than sixty years before the Russian revolution he warned that a new class of intellectuals and semi-intellectuals might seek to step into the shoes of the landlords and bosses, and deny working people their freedom.
 
For Bakunin governments are the means by which a ''minority'' rules. As ''"political power"'', for him,  meant the concentration of authority in a few hands, he declared, it must be abolished. Instead there must be a ''"social revolution"'' which will change the relationship between people and place power in the hands of the masses through their own federation of voluntary organisations.
 
A political activist and revolutionary, Bakunin never found enoug time to finish writing a single book. His legacy is composed mostly of manifests and small unfinished works. <ref name=BAKUNIN>[http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bakunin/BakuninCW.html
BAKUNIN, Mikhail Alexandrovich. ''Collected Works''.]</ref>
 
===Marxist Socialism===
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'''Marxist Socialism''' was a movement mainly led by [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/engels.htm Friedrich Engels] (1820-1895), [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/kautsky.htm Karl Kautsky] and the [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/marxian.htm Marxian School], [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/sorel.htm Georges Sorel] (1847-1922) and [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/fabian.htm#cole G.D.H. Cole] (1890-1959).
 
This movement will be thoroughly analyzed in the article [[Marxist Socialism]].
 
===Young Hegelians and State Socialism===
 
===Christian Socialism===
 
===American Populists and Socialists===
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==References==
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==Bibliography==
 
*  SAINT SIMON, 'Du Systeme industriel', Oeuvres,
 
* SISMONDI, J.C.L. Simonde de, ''Nouveaux Principes d'Economie Politique ou de la Richesse dans ses Rapports avec la Population'', 2 vols, Paris 1819.
 
==External Links==
 
* [http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/frnit/pdfs_gimon/stedman_jones.pdf    STEDMAN-JONES, Gareth. ''Saint Simon and the liberal origins of the socialist critique of Political Economy''.  King's College, Cambridge University]
 
 
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Heterodox economics refers to a relatively small but growing movement among economists who are seeking to gain acceptance of their ideas into mainstream economic thinking and scholarly discourse. Thinkers within the movement seek to organize various economic traditions, including post-Keynesianism, old institutionalism, feminist, social, and Marxian and Austrian economics under its new umbrella, according to the movement's view of what such traditions hold in common. In doing so, the heterodox economics movement seeks to distinguish its conceptualizations from what it views as "mainstream economics", which the movement engages yet opposes on some fundamental concepts.


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