Josiah Warren

Cost the limit of price

America's first anarchist.

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Economic−30

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Governance−74

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Social+40

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The reformer who ran 'time stores' and founded utopian communities on the principle that price should equal labour cost — America's first anarchist and a mutualist pioneer.

social

Experimental reformer ahead of his time.

economic

Labour-for-labour exchange; price should equal cost, not profit.

governance

Voluntary community and individual sovereignty.

Notable for

Founded 'time stores'
'Cost the limit of price'
Utopian communities (Modern Times)

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