Building a Social Science: 19th Century British Cooperative Thought - Hardcoverby Kirsten Madden (Author), Joseph Persky (Author) Just as the Industrial Revolution in Britain suggested a promise of abundance, David Ricardo, Robert Malthus, and their colleagues formalized classical political economy with its emphasis on scarcity, self interest, and private accumulation of capital. At the same time, Robert Owen took a different path arguing that the new technologies open a new world. In effect, his ideas turn classical political