Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and IrelandCambridge University Press, 2003 M11 20 - 229 páginas We think of economic theory as a scientific speciality accessible only to experts, but Victorian writers commented on economic subjects with great interest. Gordon Bigelow focuses on novelists Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell and compares their work with commentaries on the Irish famine (1845–1852). Bigelow argues that at this moment of crisis the rise of economics depended substantially on concepts developed in literature. These works all criticized the systematized approach to economic life that the prevailing political economy proposed. Gradually the romantic views of human subjectivity, described in the novels, provided the foundation for a new theory of capitalism based on the desires of the individual consumer. Bigelow's argument stands out by showing how the discussion of capitalism in these works had significant influence not just on public opinion, but on the rise of economic theory itself. |
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... Adam Smith on the origin of language Rousseau : writing and national character The abstraction of desire : Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments The abstraction of labor : the Wealth of Nations 2 Value as signification Value and character ...
... Adam Smith on the origin of language Rousseau : writing and national character The abstraction of desire : Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments The abstraction of labor : the Wealth of Nations 2 Value as signification Value and character ...
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... Adam Smith but now with the work of Malthus, this narrow vision amounted to what Boyd Hilton has called “soteriological economics,” a popular theory of poverty as atonement for sin and wealth as a sign of personal rectitude.8 In this ...
... Adam Smith but now with the work of Malthus, this narrow vision amounted to what Boyd Hilton has called “soteriological economics,” a popular theory of poverty as atonement for sin and wealth as a sign of personal rectitude.8 In this ...
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... Adam Smith, it is clear to see that the marketplace was certainly not understood as a distinct and self- contained field of inquiry. Most notable here is James Thompson's book Models of Value (1996), which aims at an unusually careful ...
... Adam Smith, it is clear to see that the marketplace was certainly not understood as a distinct and self- contained field of inquiry. Most notable here is James Thompson's book Models of Value (1996), which aims at an unusually careful ...
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... Adam Smith's early encounters with the philosophy of language, and moves rapidly to the1870s, when the theory of marginal utility emerged. Part ii returns to a pivotal era in this long transition, the 1840s and 1850s. Chapter 3 focuses ...
... Adam Smith's early encounters with the philosophy of language, and moves rapidly to the1870s, when the theory of marginal utility emerged. Part ii returns to a pivotal era in this long transition, the 1840s and 1850s. Chapter 3 focuses ...
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... Adam Smith's theory of wealth and poverty developed out of his engagement with the philosophy of language , in de- bates about the role of signs in human history , and about the significance of different forms of writing . From the work ...
... Adam Smith's theory of wealth and poverty developed out of his engagement with the philosophy of language , in de- bates about the role of signs in human history , and about the significance of different forms of writing . From the work ...
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Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland Gordon Bigelow Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
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Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland Gordon Bigelow Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
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