The Guild State: Its Principles and Possibilities

The medieval guild is deconstructed into political theory and social commentary in this contemporary look at one of the most important social institutions of the Middle Ages. Essential principles and values underlying the guild system are discussed with a view toward applying them to current societal ills such as unemployment, absentee corporate ownership, and employee disenfranchisement. The system, adapted to the needs and circumstances of the 21st century, is discussed as a serious economic alternative to the alleged disasters of capitalism and socialism; indeed, this book proposes it to be the only useful system because of its revolutionary and successful past.

G. R. S. Taylor was a leading English scholar, political thinker, and chief contributor to The New Age in the early 20th century. He is the author of Guild Politics, Leaders of Socialism, Past and Present, and Oliver Cromwell. Dr. Roger McCain received his doctorate in economics from Louisiana State University and is currently a professor of economics at Drexel University. He is the author of Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction to the Analysis of Strategy and Agent-Based Computer Simulation of Dichotomous Economic Growth. Anthony Cooney was educated in Liverpool at Ethel Wormald College of Education and the Open University. He is the author of The Sources of Poverty, One Sword at Least: G. K. Chesterton, and Social Credit: Obelisks.