Money (Vol. 18, p. 694) and Finance (Vol. 10, p. 347) are by Prof. Charles Francis Bastable, University of Dublin, author of Public Finance, etc.
See also the articles on Gold, Silver, Bimetallism, and Monetary Conferences.
On “Ideal” social systems, see these four groups of articles:
Anarchism, Socialism, etc.
Anarchism (Vol. 1, p. 914), by Prince Kropotkin, author of Modern Science and Anarchism, and a contributor to the Britannica on Russian geography; and Nihilism (Vol. 19, p. 686), by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, author of Russia, and The Web of Empire; and biographies of William Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Clémence Louise Michel, Kropotkin, Most, Reclus (like Kropotkin, well known as a geographer), Tolstoy, and on “anarchist” outrages see Chicago (Vol. 6, p. 125), McKinley, Alexander II of Russia, M. F. S. Carnot, Elizabeth of Austria (Vol. 9, p. 285), and Humbert.
Communism (Vol. 6, p. 791), and see also Robert Owen, New Harmony, Amana, Shakers, Fourier, Brook Farm, Considerant, Cabet, Saint-Simon and Oneida Community; and on Plato’s “Republic,” Plato (especially pp. 818–819, Vol. 21); on More’s “Utopia,” the article Sir Thomas More (especially p. 825, Vol. 18); on Bacon’s “New Atlantis,” the article Francis Bacon (especially p. 144, Vol. 3); on Hobbe’s “Leviathan,” the article Hobbes (especially p. 547, Vol. 13); on Campanella’s “Civitas Solis” or “City of the Sun,” the article Campanella (Vol. 5, p. 121); Samuel Butler (Vol. 4, p. 887) for “Erewhon” and “Erewhon Revisited”; and Edward Bellamy (Vol. 3, p. 694) for “Looking Backward,” the latest of the well-known literary pictures of an ideal commonwealth.
Co-Operation (Vol. 7, p. 82), by Aneurin Williams, chairman of executive, International Co-Operative Alliance, and author of Twenty-eight Years of Co-operation at Guise; and Building Societies (Vol. 4, p. 766) and Friendly Societies (Vol. 11, p. 217), both collaborative articles by Sir Edward William Brabrook, late chief registrar of friendly societies, and Dr. Carroll D. Wright, late United States Commissioner of Labor; and for the different co-operative experiments, see, in addition to the articles mentioned under Communism above: Rochdale, Guise, Jean Baptiste, André Godin, E. V. Neale, Raiffeisen and Schulze-Delitzsch for German co-operative banks and rural credit, Ireland (especially p. 749, Vol. 14), France (especially p. 782, Vol. 10), Italy (especially p. 14, Vol. 15), Russia (especially p. 887, Vol. 23, on the Artel); and for American approaches to co-operation the articles Hopedale, Pullman and Mormons (especially p. 846, Vol. 18).
Socialism (Vol. 25, p. 301), by James Bonar, author of Philosophy and Political Economy; and supplement this by the articles Robert Owen; Karl Marx, by Edward Bernstein, author of Theorie and Geschichte des Socialismus and formerly a Socialist member of the Reichstag and a leader of the German Socialist movement away from Marx; Rodbertus; Lassalle; Kettler; Bebel; Liebknecht; Schmoller; Jaures; Millerand; Henry George; William Morris; H. G. Wells; Bernard Shaw; John Burns; and local articles, especially New Zealand and Finland.
Tariffs, Trusts, etc.
Among the more interesting general economic topics are tariffs and trusts, matters of constant and great importance both in politics and business. See the articles: Tariff (Vol. 26, p. 422), by Dr. F. W. Taussig, professor at Harvard, and author of The Tariff History of the United States; Free Trade (Vol. 11, p. 88), by Dr. William Cunningham, archdeacon of Ely, author of Growth of English Industry and Commerce.