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