Co-operative Societies BY CHARLES GIDE (Professor of Political Economy in the Faculty of Laws, Translated from the French by Published by the 1921 GRAD 3271 6453 1921 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 1921 (Being a translation of the third French edition, published in 1917). HATAY/grad gift 8-48-2015 TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE This translation of Professor Charles Gide's "Les Sociétés Coopératives de consommation" gives the English-speaking reader his first opportunity of reading what has been regarded on the Continent as the standard work on consumers' co-operation and what undoubtedly is the most careful study of the subject made by a distinguished political economist. Professor Gide's reputation as an economist and as a co-operator is so well known that it is not necessary to enlarge upon it. He has written many books on economics and on co-operation which are standard works in his own country, and all of his works have appeared in many editions and have been translated into other languages. His principal works besides the present one are: La Coopération" (Conférences de Propagande), "Les Institutions de Progrès Social," "Histoire de Doctrines économiques depuis les Physiocrates jusqu'à nos jours" (in collaboration with M. Rist), "Les Principes d'Économie Politique," which has been translated into 14 languages, and "Des Institutions en vue de l'abolition du salariat." The present work has already been translated into Dutch, Polish, and Portuguese, and Czech, while Ukrainian and Spanish editions are in preparation. |