I. Introduction, 640.—II. Saint-Simon in his relation to the policy of laissez-faire, 642.—Neither Saint-Simon nor the Saint-Simonians were socialists, 648.—III. The philosophy of history, 650.—The principle of productivity and its importance, 651.—IV. The rule of law and the harmony of interests in a society of producers, 657.—V. The Saint-Simonian criticism of competition, 665.—The division between the idle and the producing class, 668.—The rationalisation of economic enterprise, 674.—VI. The position and importance of the banks, 675.—The theory and rational use of credit, 677.—VII. Conclusion, 680.

Journal Article Ricardo's Notes on Malthus Get access E. S. Mason E. S. Mason Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 4, August 1928, Pages 684–696, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882540 Published: 01 August 1928

I. Revolutionary groups in their attitude to science. Pretensions of anarchism to scientific method, 229. — II. Social sciences and modern anarchism draw from a common source, the conception of natural law, 231. — Ways in which this conception has been used, 235. — Reasons for the sharp divergence of anarchism from the point of view of students of the social sciences, 237. — III. Fourier's system is essentially anarchistic, 241. — The characteristics of his anarchism in its use of the idea of a natural order, 243.—The natural order of Fourier as an equilibrium of passional attractions, 250. — IV. Distinctiveness of Fourier's anarchism. His romanticism, 156. — His modernism, 260. — Criticism and summary, 261.

Reviews the book "The Theory of the Cost-Price System," by Arnold J.W. Keppel and introduced by J.A. Hobson.