Re Tulupenko's question whether the Transcentalist movement contributed   
anything to economics, assuming a reasonably narrow definition of this   
movement and a reasonably broad definition of economics, I looked into my   
old source, Joseph Dorfman's Economic Mind in American Civilization, and   
did not find much. Among many other utopian movements and notions in the   
United States then there (in volume ii, chapters xxiv and xxv) are the   
Fourierists, Brisbane and Greeley, both very interesting for their social   
and political action, but hardly contributors to economics (as theory or   
analysis). The only others worth noting would be Orestes Brownson (while he   
was still a Unitarian) and Greeley's city editor, Charles A. Dana,   
interesting for the same reasons, not for their economics. It looks as if   
Ripley alone made any notable contribution to economic thought.  
  
John Womack