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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... the house : the novel's systems Home of coin : Dickens in the Bank of England and metaphors 86 95 More market metaphysics 100 The merits of the system 106 4 Esoteric solutions : Ireland and the colonial critique of vii Contents.
... the house : the novel's systems Home of coin : Dickens in the Bank of England and metaphors 86 95 More market metaphysics 100 The merits of the system 106 4 Esoteric solutions : Ireland and the colonial critique of vii Contents.
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... England in the 1830s. Its roots were in German idealist philosophy, and in the broad artistic and cultural movement we now call romanticism. The English writers of the romantic period, as currently understood in literary history, are a ...
... England in the 1830s. Its roots were in German idealist philosophy, and in the broad artistic and cultural movement we now call romanticism. The English writers of the romantic period, as currently understood in literary history, are a ...
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... England serves in the financial discourse of this period : both promise an end to circulation , an immanence of meaning , a stilling of value . — The writing of the Irish Famine ( 1845–52 ) is the subject of chapter 4 , which deals with ...
... England serves in the financial discourse of this period : both promise an end to circulation , an immanence of meaning , a stilling of value . — The writing of the Irish Famine ( 1845–52 ) is the subject of chapter 4 , which deals with ...
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... England was founded in 1694 in order to manage the Crown's significant debt, incurred in the military suppression of Ireland and in continuing war with Ireland's Catholic ally, France. The Bank did this by distributing government debt ...
... England was founded in 1694 in order to manage the Crown's significant debt, incurred in the military suppression of Ireland and in continuing war with Ireland's Catholic ally, France. The Bank did this by distributing government debt ...
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... England is belated by these Italian standards, but by 1600 an English instructional manual could claim, in a prefatory poem, that learning numbers was a foundation of all knowledge: No state, no age, no man, nor child, but here may ...
... England is belated by these Italian standards, but by 1600 an English instructional manual could claim, in a prefatory poem, that learning numbers was a foundation of all knowledge: No state, no age, no man, nor child, but here may ...
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Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland Gordon Bigelow Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland Gordon Bigelow Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland Gordon Bigelow Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
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