Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and IrelandCambridge University Press, 20 лист. 2003 р. - 229 стор. 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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... referred to in this book , and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is , or will remain , accurate or appropriate . Acknowledgments Introduction Contents PART I ORIGIN STORIES AND POLITICAL ECONOMY Copyright.
... referred to in this book , and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is , or will remain , accurate or appropriate . Acknowledgments Introduction Contents PART I ORIGIN STORIES AND POLITICAL ECONOMY Copyright.
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Gordon Bigelow. Acknowledgments Introduction Contents PART I ORIGIN STORIES AND POLITICAL ECONOMY , 1740-1870 I History as abstraction Ι Condillac's philosophy of signs Rousseau's revision Adam Smith on the origin of language Rousseau ...
Gordon Bigelow. Acknowledgments Introduction Contents PART I ORIGIN STORIES AND POLITICAL ECONOMY , 1740-1870 I History as abstraction Ι Condillac's philosophy of signs Rousseau's revision Adam Smith on the origin of language Rousseau ...
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... origins in the nineteenth century, origins that can be found partly within the history of positivism and the experimental sciences, but partly within the romantic reconception of hu- man subjective experience. The romantic roots of ...
... origins in the nineteenth century, origins that can be found partly within the history of positivism and the experimental sciences, but partly within the romantic reconception of hu- man subjective experience. The romantic roots of ...
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... cate- gories of this early Victorian reaction would gradually be reabsorbed into the mainstream of British economic thought, until they formed its very heart. PART I Origin stories and political economy , 1740-1870 In Introduction 11.
... cate- gories of this early Victorian reaction would gradually be reabsorbed into the mainstream of British economic thought, until they formed its very heart. PART I Origin stories and political economy , 1740-1870 In Introduction 11.
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... origin of languages was provoked in part by examples of Chinese script and Egyptian hieroglyphic writing , which were made widely available to European scholars for the first time in this period . Chinese and Egyptian writing were both ...
... origin of languages was provoked in part by examples of Chinese script and Egyptian hieroglyphic writing , which were made widely available to European scholars for the first time in this period . Chinese and Egyptian writing were both ...
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