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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... chapter 4 and provided on other occasions many restorative evenings of wine and conver- sation . Catherine John has been a rare intellectual companion , helping me make sense of my reasons for doing this work . The open - handed encour ...
... chapter 4 and provided on other occasions many restorative evenings of wine and conver- sation . Catherine John has been a rare intellectual companion , helping me make sense of my reasons for doing this work . The open - handed encour ...
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... chapters 1 and 2 appeared in the New Orleans Review (1998), and I thank the journal for use of that material. My parents, Gordon and Beverly Bigelow, deserve all my gratitude. They have provided constant support, sympathy, and an ...
... chapters 1 and 2 appeared in the New Orleans Review (1998), and I thank the journal for use of that material. My parents, Gordon and Beverly Bigelow, deserve all my gratitude. They have provided constant support, sympathy, and an ...
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... chapters that follow on Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell, I trace an emerging romantic vision of markets and market factors which would ultimately become part of modern economic theory. To argue that economic theory is romantic ...
... chapters that follow on Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell, I trace an emerging romantic vision of markets and market factors which would ultimately become part of modern economic theory. To argue that economic theory is romantic ...
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... chapter 2 below, the metaphysical reorientation he proposes for political economy would form the foundation of the system Jevons would eventually call economics. The other odd precursor of neoclassical economics in the early Victorian ...
... chapter 2 below, the metaphysical reorientation he proposes for political economy would form the foundation of the system Jevons would eventually call economics. The other odd precursor of neoclassical economics in the early Victorian ...
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... Chapter 3 focuses on the work of Charles Dickens in the early 1850s. While outrage against the cold rationality of political economists is often discussed in relation to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1843) and to Mr. Gradgrind in Hard ...
... Chapter 3 focuses on the work of Charles Dickens in the early 1850s. While outrage against the cold rationality of political economists is often discussed in relation to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1843) and to Mr. Gradgrind in Hard ...
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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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