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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... representation of the consumer's desire; con- sumer behavior in the market, charted over the long term and in aggregate, is interpreted as the expression of popular will. The philological approach to language gained influence in England ...
... representation of the consumer's desire; con- sumer behavior in the market, charted over the long term and in aggregate, is interpreted as the expression of popular will. The philological approach to language gained influence in England ...
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... representation , " or what Derrida more recently calls " arche - writing , " it is also true that human interpretation of the representational process , and human deployment of the concept of representation , changes in response to ...
... representation , " or what Derrida more recently calls " arche - writing , " it is also true that human interpretation of the representational process , and human deployment of the concept of representation , changes in response to ...
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... representation of speech.3 He proposed that Chinese writing would be “ a model of philosophic language thus removed from history . ” 4 In other words , Leibniz imagined a writing with direct relation to the forms of thought themselves ...
... representation of speech.3 He proposed that Chinese writing would be “ a model of philosophic language thus removed from history . ” 4 In other words , Leibniz imagined a writing with direct relation to the forms of thought themselves ...
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... representations of truth, in fact Poovey shows that as a “system of writing,” double-entry bookkeeping still functioned very much within the traditional epistemology of language.18 In the merchant's books, Poovey argues, “the precision ...
... representations of truth, in fact Poovey shows that as a “system of writing,” double-entry bookkeeping still functioned very much within the traditional epistemology of language.18 In the merchant's books, Poovey argues, “the precision ...
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... representation could pose. This threat to the formal properties of “truth” is paralleled on the level of politics, as a new class of speculators and calculators, brought into being by the new trade in stock shares, was seen as poised to ...
... representation could pose. This threat to the formal properties of “truth” is paralleled on the level of politics, as a new class of speculators and calculators, brought into being by the new trade in stock shares, was seen as poised to ...
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