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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... suggest that “ for economists who are dissatisfied with the standard neoclassical dictum that the determinants of taste ( culture , for example ) have no importance for economic theory , such investigations into the deep ways in which ...
... suggest that “ for economists who are dissatisfied with the standard neoclassical dictum that the determinants of taste ( culture , for example ) have no importance for economic theory , such investigations into the deep ways in which ...
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... suggest the possibility of communicating without reference to the voice and thus , metaphorically , without reference to the truth . In this way the idea of a universal writ- ing opened a gap which a tremendous amount of ideological ...
... suggest the possibility of communicating without reference to the voice and thus , metaphorically , without reference to the truth . In this way the idea of a universal writ- ing opened a gap which a tremendous amount of ideological ...
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... suggests to readers that numbers offer a kind of perfect mental vocabulary, a foundation both for language (“the parts of speech”) and for human thought (“wher children first begin”). However, even as the mercantile use of the new Hindu ...
... suggests to readers that numbers offer a kind of perfect mental vocabulary, a foundation both for language (“the parts of speech”) and for human thought (“wher children first begin”). However, even as the mercantile use of the new Hindu ...
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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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