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Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed in the 1920s and 1930s by C. H. Douglas.Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The name Social Credit Party has been used by a number of political parties. In Canada: ... Canadian social credit movement
Notable supporters of Social Credit or "monetary reform" in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s included aircraft manufacturer A. V. Roe, scientist Frederick Soddy, author Henry Williamson, [citation needed] military historian J. F. C. Fuller [7] and Sir Oswald Mosley, in 1928-30 a member of the Labour Government but later the leader of the British Union of Fascists.
Between 1916 and 1920, he developed his economic ideas, publishing two books in 1920, Economic Democracy and Credit-Power and Democracy, followed in 1924 by Social Credit. The basis of Douglas's reform ideas was to free workers from this system by bringing purchasing power in line with production, which became known as social credit.
In the years around 1920 the British engineer C. H. Douglas developed a theory on banking and welfare distribution, a theory which he called "Social Credit", and which soon became the cornerstone of an international movement with the same name. However, Douglas himself warned against viewing the Social Credit solely as a scheme for monetary reform.
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Not a Fair Go: A History and Analysis of Social Credit's Struggle for Success in New Zealand's Electoral System (PDF) (M.A. Political Science thesis). University of Waikato; Zavos, Spiro (1981). Crusade: Social Credit's drive for power. Lower Hutt: INL Print. ISBN 0-86464-025-0. Who's Who in New Zealand (1971, 10th edition)
Formed in 1932 as the Financial Freedom Federation (FFF), it became the Irish Social Credit Party in late 1935. The party sought to reform Ireland's financial and economic system on lines consistent with the social credit economics as espoused by Major C. H. Douglas. The FFF had split in two factions: one operating under the banner of the ...