Robert Owen: A Biography

This thorough study based on Owen's autobiography and letters relates his life to a wide range of the period's social and economic problems. Owen's writings and particularly his practical work had a profound influence on economic thought during the Industrial Revolution in Britain. To Ricardo, Torrens and Senior, socialism meant Owenism; "even John Stuart Mill ... coupled him with St.-Simon and Charles Fourier as the socialist thinker of his time" (M. Blaug Great Economists Before Keynes) . "The most useful biography." J.F.C. Harrison Quest for the New Moral World