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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
A Note on Sources
Part I BACKGROUND
Chapter 1 QUAKERS AND COMMERCE
Economic Activity, Social Justice and Capitalism
The Protestant Work Ethic: Weber and Tawney
Quakers and Class in Britain
Chapter 2 INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM
Quakernomics as a Microcosm of Industrial Capitalism
Chapter 3 CONTRASTING CULTURES IN 1845
Engels and the Conditions of the Working Class
Disraeli’s Sybil and One Nation Conservatism
Part II THE QUAKER ENTERPRISES
Chapter 4 THE DARBYS OF COALBROOKDALE
Abraham Darby I
Abraham Darby II and Richard Reynolds
Abraham Darby III
Further Generations
A Personal Digression on Foundries
Quakers, Non-human Energies and the Capitalism of Metals
Coalbrookdale as Ethical Capitalism
Chapter 5 QUAKERS IN LIGHT AND HEAVY INDUSTRY
Benjamin Huntsman and Cast Steel
The Quaker Lead Company
Agricultural Equipment: Robert Ransome
Railways and Canals
Cotton, Wool and Textiles
Shoes
Matches
Chapter 6 QUAKERS IN SCIENCE, CHEMICALS AND PHARMACEUTICALS
Quaker Scientists and Botanists
Clock-Makers
Other Innovators
Capitalism and Chemicals
Crosfield
Allen & Hanburys
John Bell & Co. and Corbyn, Stacey & Co.
Reckitt & Sons
Chapter 7 QUAKERS IN FOODSTUFFS AND LUXURIES
The Issue of Luxuries
Fry
Cadbury
Rowntree
Biscuits: Huntley & Palmers, Carr’s and Jacob’s
Tea
Brewing
Chapter 8 QUAKERS IN TRADING, BANKING AND FINANCE
Lawyers, Stockbrokers and Accountants
Usury
Goldsmith Bankers and John Freame
Merchants and Banking: Pease, Backhouse and Gurney
Barclays Bank
Lloyds Bank
Overend & Gurney
Bagehot’s Verdict
Chapter 9 QUAKERS IN CULTURE
Chapter 10 THE QUAKER SYSTEM
The Scale and Causes of Quaker Business Achievement
The Fading of the Quaker Ethic
Part III QUAKERS, SOCIETY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Chapter 11 QUAKERS IN PUBLIC LIFE
Fellows of Societies
Honours Accepted and Refused
Some Outstanding Quaker Activists
Slavery, Pacifism, the League of Nations and the United Nations
Chapter 12 INDUSTRIAL WELFARE AND QUAKER LAPSES
Some Quaker Lapses
Cocoa Slavery
Chapter 13 QUAKERS AND OTHER ETHICAL CAPITALISTS
Robert Owen
Milton S. Hershey and Chocolatetown
Titus Salt and Saltaire
William Lever and Port Sunlight
Andrew Carnegie
Quakernomics and Ethics
Part IV INDUSTRIAL ETHICS AND ECONOMIC THOUGHT
Chapter 14 FROM MERCANTILISM TO MARSHALL
Mercantilism and the Physiocrats
Adam Smith
Thomas Robert Malthus
David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill
Alfred Marshall
Ethical Capitalism: First Assessment
Chapter 15 KARL MARX
Chapter 16 GEORGE, VEBLEN AND SCHUMPETER
Henry George
Thorstein Veblen
Joseph Schumpeter
Chapter 17 THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL
Ludwig von Mises
Friedrich Hayek
Chapter 18 KEYNES, TAWNEY AND GALBRAITH
Tawney
Galbraith
Ethical Capitalism: Second Assessment
Chapter 19 ECONOMICS IN FICTION
Chapter 20 AYN RAND
Atlas Shrugged
Rand and Marx
Chapter 21 MILTON FRIEDMAN
The Friedmanite Legacy
Chapter 22 QUAKERNOMICS AND THE CREDIT CRUNCH
Inequality and The Spirit Level
Paul Krugman: Not Free to Die
Joseph Stiglitz: Pervasive Externalities
Jeffrey Sachs: The Mixed Economy
Niall Ferguson
Chapter 23 QUAKERNOMICS AND ECONOMIC HISTORY
Ethical Capitalism: Third Assessment
Non-human Energies and Theories of Value
Part V CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 24 ETHICAL CAPITALISM
NOTES
Introduction
Chapter 1: Quakers and Commerce
Chapter 2: Industrial Capitalism
Chapter 3: Contrasting Cultures in 1845
Chapter 4: The Darbys of Coalbrookdale
Chapter 5: Quakers in Light and Heavy Industry
Chapter 6: Quakers in Science, Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals
Chapter 7: Quakers in Foodstuffs and Luxuries
Chapter 8: Quakers in Trading, Banking and Finance
Chapter 9: Quakers in Culture
Chapter 10: The Quaker System
Chapter 11: Quakers in Public Life
Chapter 12: Industrial Welfare and Quaker Lapses
Chapter 13: Quakers and Other Ethical Capitalists
Chapter 14: From Mercantilism to Marshall
Chapter 15: Karl Marx
Chapter 16: George, Veblen and Schumpeter
Chapter 17: The Austrian School
Chapter 18: Keynes, Tawney and Galbraith
Chapter 19: Economics in Fiction
Chapter 20: Ayn Rand
Chapter 21: Milton Friedman
Chapter 22: Quakernomics and the Credit Crunch
Chapter 23: Quakernomics and Economic History
INDEX
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