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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... 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 social and political policy, liberal ...
... 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 social and political policy, liberal ...
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... rhetoric of politics and journalism, the modern theory of market expansion amounts to a total vision of the good. Economics provides a relatively stable vocabulary for describing social processes, limiting the historical narrative that ...
... rhetoric of politics and journalism, the modern theory of market expansion amounts to a total vision of the good. Economics provides a relatively stable vocabulary for describing social processes, limiting the historical narrative that ...
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... rhetoric] as the instrument that produced both truth and virtue.”19 The numbers used in the double-entry practice ... rhetorical numbers of the merchant's books, numbers in the probabilistic sciences refer explicitly to potential events ...
... rhetoric] as the instrument that produced both truth and virtue.”19 The numbers used in the double-entry practice ... rhetorical numbers of the merchant's books, numbers in the probabilistic sciences refer explicitly to potential events ...
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