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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... 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 in Ricardo Kant and the philologists Longfield and Whately : value in ...
... 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 in Ricardo Kant and the philologists Longfield and Whately : value in ...
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... character. A particular modern avatar of homo economicus, rational economic man, the consumer is a rational actor, but one whose primary motivations are understood in metaphysical, even occult terms. But it is also correct to say that ...
... character. A particular modern avatar of homo economicus, rational economic man, the consumer is a rational actor, but one whose primary motivations are understood in metaphysical, even occult terms. But it is also correct to say that ...
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... character as essential and desire as occult , in the same way that economists after Jevons would see each consumer's choice of commodities as a secret expression of selfhood . The romantic linking of language , economy , and national ...
... character as essential and desire as occult , in the same way that economists after Jevons would see each consumer's choice of commodities as a secret expression of selfhood . The romantic linking of language , economy , and national ...
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... characters , ” 2 where each letter , rather than representing a vocal sound , would convey some fundamental philosophic principle . Theorists of " real characters " seized onto Chinese and Egyptian texts as possible clues to a perfect ...
... characters , ” 2 where each letter , rather than representing a vocal sound , would convey some fundamental philosophic principle . Theorists of " real characters " seized onto Chinese and Egyptian texts as possible clues to a perfect ...
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... characters.” The terms of the origin-of- language debate change over the course of the eighteenth century, until the generation of Rousseau and Herder gives rise to a philosophy of language – philology – that contains this threat as ...
... characters.” The terms of the origin-of- language debate change over the course of the eighteenth century, until the generation of Rousseau and Herder gives rise to a philosophy of language – philology – that contains this threat as ...
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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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