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on the “Boston House of Equity,” 3/26/1856

June 9, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“To Correspondents,” Boston Investigator, 25, 48 (March 26, 1856), 3. “J. N.”—The “Boston House of Equity” (established for the sale of provisions and groceries at about wholesale prices or a small advance upon cost,) and […]

Equitable Commerce: Boston Investigator advertisement

June 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[advertisement], Boston Investigator, 18, 44 (March 7, 1849), 3. EQUITABLE COMMERCE THE SECOND EDITION OF “EQUITABLE COMMERCE, a new development of principles for the harmonious adjustment and regulation of the intercourse of mankind,” is just […]

Equitable Commerce bibliography and miscellany

May 16, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

For your education, edification, and amusement: Josiah Warren and Equitable Commerce: A Bibliography A Work-in-Progress: I currently have most of my notes from 1821 to about 1853 incorporated into this sprawling bibliography+, which includes the […]

How NOT to Read Josiah Warren

May 12, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[The following note comes from David Ames, Robinson Crusoe’s Money (1876, pages 59-60). I include in here for the specimen notes, both of which were new to me, and for the hints about E. D. […]

William Pare on equitable commerce

May 11, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] William Pare’s “Equitable Villages in America,” a lecture from 1854, is a particularly good short treatment of the system of “equitable commerce” proposed and practiced by Josiah Warren. Pare never […]

The Dual Commerce Association, Boston, 1859

May 9, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

One of the things that is becoming clearer from continuing research into the practical history of mutualism is that there were lots of small experiments in, and local enthusiasts for, equitable commerce and mutual currency. […]

Josiah Warren, Equitable Commerce, &c.

April 15, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here are four pieces, recently added to the archive, all relating to Josiah Warren. Peter I. Blacker, Equitable Villages Peter I. Blacker was a frequent contributor to The Boston Investigator, where his posts were frequently […]

From the Boston Investigator, 1848-49, Pt. 1

April 10, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I was contacted this afternoon by a reader of this blog who is working on a biography of Josiah Warren. Taking that together with Crispin Sartwell’s work on a Warren Anthology, Crispin’s Josiah Warren Project […]

Practical application of the cost principle in Massachusetts, 1863

February 5, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Lots of material on Josiah Warren and equitable commerce has surfaced in the Boston Investigator, while I’ve been looking for material by Lewis Masquerier. This is a particularly interesting account of an equity store being […]

A Poem on Equitable Commerce

September 25, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

[The New Harmony Gazette published the following in December, 1827.] From the Saturday Evening Chronicle we copy, for the amusement of his friends, the following jeu d’esprit, on the Magazine kept by a late fellow-citizen […]