Discover a comprehensive guide to how industry and society shape each other.
This classic work presents a structured view of industrial science, connecting the motives, markets, and moral forces behind production and exchange. It surveys how value, price, and demand arise, and how these ideas relate to ethics, sociology, and art.
The book is organized in clear sections that build a framework for understanding how economies work. It critiques simple self-interest explanations and explores the roles of competition, labor, capital, and land. Readers will find a method for studying production and distribution that links theory to real-world social and moral considerations.
- Foundational ideas on value, use, and exchange, and how they drive production.
- Analysis of demand, supply, price, and the forces that shape markets.
- Connections between industrial science and ethics, sociology, and art.
- A structured, chapter-by-chapter approach suitable for readers seeking a deeper, systems-based view of how economies function.
Ideal for readers of classic economic and social theory, as well as those curious about how industry intersects with daily life and public policy.