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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... question the terms of older debates . Whereas the tendency in much past literary critical interpretation was to use ... questions of power and of circulation . Such developments have reanimated the field . This series aims to accommodate ...
... question the terms of older debates . Whereas the tendency in much past literary critical interpretation was to use ... questions of power and of circulation . Such developments have reanimated the field . This series aims to accommodate ...
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... questions the universality of the neoclassical categories and advances alternatives. Though a distinct minority among academics, and virtually invisible in government and commerce, there are subsets of economists determined to question ...
... questions the universality of the neoclassical categories and advances alternatives. Though a distinct minority among academics, and virtually invisible in government and commerce, there are subsets of economists determined to question ...
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... questions the ascendancy of neoliberal trade theory around the globe.15 The most innovative academic work on globalization issues, however, has come from the discipline of anthropology. Following on from the work of figures like ...
... questions the ascendancy of neoliberal trade theory around the globe.15 The most innovative academic work on globalization issues, however, has come from the discipline of anthropology. Following on from the work of figures like ...
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... question of intellectual property.19 Other critics trace the treatment of eco- nomic concepts like value, exchange, and debt within literary texts, often in connection with changes in market infrastructure and shifting conceptions of ...
... question of intellectual property.19 Other critics trace the treatment of eco- nomic concepts like value, exchange, and debt within literary texts, often in connection with changes in market infrastructure and shifting conceptions of ...
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... question of its immunity to the material agency of signs, is also at the center of European romanticism, with its ... questions Introduction 9.
... question of its immunity to the material agency of signs, is also at the center of European romanticism, with its ... questions Introduction 9.
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