Working translations:
- “On the Imprecision of Economic Principles and the Teaching of Political Economy in Colleges” (1847)
- “Some Ideas on the Organization of Labor and Free Competition” (1847)
- “The Problem of the Organization of Labor, before the Congress of the Economists of Brussels” (1848)
- “The Problem of the Organization of Labor, before the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences” (1848)
- “The Problem of the Organization of Labor, before the Central Congress of Agriculture” (1848)
- “On Property” (1848)
- Social Aphorisms (1848)
- Bank of the People: Theory and Practice of that Institution (1849)
Related links:
- A New Proudhon Library [project page]
- Solution of the Social Problem: Writing on Free Credit [project page]
Ramón de la Sagra is one of the long list of figures sometimes associated with Proudhon — often in ways that suggest more specific sorts of influence and theoretical agreement than perhaps actually existed. There is little question, I think, that he is also one of the equally long list of Proudhon’s contemporaries who deserve more and more careful attention — not least because of his contributions to Le Représentant du Peuple and his advocacy of the Bank of the People, in support of which he published a 150-page book. So I am pleased — as part of the work documenting Proudhon’s free credit project — to be able to present a selection of his works on economic topics, including Bank of the People: Theory and Practice of that Institution Based on Rational Doctrine.
At this point, I have a rough outline for a collection of works from the period 1847-1849, built around Bank of the People and the texts collected by de la Sagra under the title Opuscules Socialistes, with a few related texts, totaling about 100,000 words worth of material. Readers will find, however, that the fundamentals of his social theory — at least as it relates to broadly economic questions — are pretty well laid out in the texts already translated. I think they will also find an approach that differs in many important respects from that of Proudhon, while remaining quite interesting.
