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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... mind , thought , desire , or being . The rise of modern , neo- classical economics in the nineteenth century turned upon a new way of understanding commodities as signs , and it is the gradual development of that new understanding that ...
... mind , thought , desire , or being . The rise of modern , neo- classical economics in the nineteenth century turned upon a new way of understanding commodities as signs , and it is the gradual development of that new understanding that ...
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... mind . ” Thus while spoken signifiers seem to possess an original closeness to the mind , “ the written signifier is always technical and representative , ” associ- ated with a fall from an interior truth to an exterior of earthly ...
... mind . ” Thus while spoken signifiers seem to possess an original closeness to the mind , “ the written signifier is always technical and representative , ” associ- ated with a fall from an interior truth to an exterior of earthly ...
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... mind of the person manipulating the numbers. It was not mercantile numbers that threatened the epistemological order of the period; it was financial numbers. The financial instruments of the 1690s – equity shares of joint-stock ...
... mind of the person manipulating the numbers. It was not mercantile numbers that threatened the epistemological order of the period; it was financial numbers. The financial instruments of the 1690s – equity shares of joint-stock ...
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