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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... relations, power and privilege are thought primarily within an eco- nomic rhetoric; empire's frank assertions of hierarchy in race, class, and gender have been replaced in foreign policy by the sanitized terms of de- velopment, growth ...
... relations, power and privilege are thought primarily within an eco- nomic rhetoric; empire's frank assertions of hierarchy in race, class, and gender have been replaced in foreign policy by the sanitized terms of de- velopment, growth ...
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... relationship between eighteenth-century fiction and the emerging theory of political economy itself. Rather than focusing on a particular eco- nomic concept – like exchange, the general equivalent, or the commodity – Thompson is ...
... relationship between eighteenth-century fiction and the emerging theory of political economy itself. Rather than focusing on a particular eco- nomic concept – like exchange, the general equivalent, or the commodity – Thompson is ...
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... relation to the signified ) should not be confused with commodities and capital that move unfettered ( by government ... relationship between economics and other forms of social discourse and description in the nineteenth cen- tury . It ...
... relation to the signified ) should not be confused with commodities and capital that move unfettered ( by government ... relationship between economics and other forms of social discourse and description in the nineteenth cen- tury . It ...
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... of political economists is often discussed in relation to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1843) and to Mr. Gradgrind in Hard Times (1854), I argue that Dickens's most sustained consideration of economic questions Introduction 9.
... of political economists is often discussed in relation to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1843) and to Mr. Gradgrind in Hard Times (1854), I argue that Dickens's most sustained consideration of economic questions Introduction 9.
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... relation to trends in the philosophy of language in the same periods . What emerges from this particular tracing of historical change is that modern economics is a science of representation , one that has attempted since its inception ...
... relation to trends in the philosophy of language in the same periods . What emerges from this particular tracing of historical change is that modern economics is a science of representation , one that has attempted since its inception ...
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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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