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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... thought – in short , culture in its broadest sense . In recent years , theoretical challenges and historiographical shifts have unsettled the assumptions of previous scholarly synthesis and called into question the terms of older ...
... thought – in short , culture in its broadest sense . In recent years , theoretical challenges and historiographical shifts have unsettled the assumptions of previous scholarly synthesis and called into question the terms of older ...
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... thought J. S. Mill's political ethology Jevons's perfected speech page ix I 13 19 19 24 28 33 42 50 58 61 29 +0 36 256 69 PART II PRODUCING THE CONSUMER 73 3 Market indicators : banking and housekeeping in Bleak House 77 80 1847 The ...
... thought J. S. Mill's political ethology Jevons's perfected speech page ix I 13 19 19 24 28 33 42 50 58 61 29 +0 36 256 69 PART II PRODUCING THE CONSUMER 73 3 Market indicators : banking and housekeeping in Bleak House 77 80 1847 The ...
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... 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, and free trade. Public discourse on ...
... 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, and free trade. Public discourse on ...
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... thought originated from the harshest critics of liberal political economy in the early Victorian period – romantics and Tory traditionalists. Although Thomas De Quincey had parted company from his Lake Poet friends by the time he began ...
... thought originated from the harshest critics of liberal political economy in the early Victorian period – romantics and Tory traditionalists. Although Thomas De Quincey had parted company from his Lake Poet friends by the time he began ...
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... thought, and in early Victorian fiction and non-fiction prose. The hegemonic staying power of economics can be clarified through such an approach; so can its particular limitations and blindnesses. Serious students of economics today ...
... thought, and in early Victorian fiction and non-fiction prose. The hegemonic staying power of economics can be clarified through such an approach; so can its particular limitations and blindnesses. Serious students of economics today ...
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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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Aarsleff abstract Adair Adam Smith Bagehot Bank of England Bleak House called Cambridge University Press capital capitalist Chancery chapter character Charles Dickens Chicago Press circulation commodity conception Condillac consumer Cranford crisis culture debate Derrida desire Dickens Dickens’s Discourse division of labor domestic early economic thought economists eighteenth-century Elizabeth Gaskell emerging English essay Esther exchange Famine feelings Fiction function human Ibid idea imagination individual industrial Ireland Irish Irish Famine Jacques Derrida Jarndyce Jevons land laws linguistic London Margaret Marx Mary Barton Matty metaphor metaphysical Mill modern natural neoclassical economics Nicholson nineteenth century novel objects origin of language Oxford paper philosophical political economy potato principle produce question Quincey representation rhetoric Ricardo romantic Rousseau seems signs Smith argues social society speech theory of value Thornton Threadneedle Street tion trans Trevelyan understanding Victorian vols wages Walter Bagehot writing York