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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... thing called " the economy " from other forms of human judgment . This economy must have its own laws and ordering principles , which could be isolated and studied in themselves . But it is important to recognize here that Jevons's ...
... thing called " the economy " from other forms of human judgment . This economy must have its own laws and ordering principles , which could be isolated and studied in themselves . But it is important to recognize here that Jevons's ...
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... thing indicates always the possibility of dispossession, and Nunokawa watches this double logic at work in a series of elegant readings.20 In Novels Under Glass (1995), Andrew Miller begins by noticing a new logic of display that ...
... thing indicates always the possibility of dispossession, and Nunokawa watches this double logic at work in a series of elegant readings.20 In Novels Under Glass (1995), Andrew Miller begins by noticing a new logic of display that ...
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... thing as the power to consume . " 27 My aim in this book is to understand the relationship between economics and other forms of social discourse and description in the nineteenth cen- tury . It is for this reason that I stress not the ...
... thing as the power to consume . " 27 My aim in this book is to understand the relationship between economics and other forms of social discourse and description in the nineteenth cen- tury . It is for this reason that I stress not the ...
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... things: in the mathematical language of money, writing comes before speech, and the subject of European history is obscured. The inhuman agency of money has been a central problem of the modern period, and the history of European ...
... things: in the mathematical language of money, writing comes before speech, and the subject of European history is obscured. The inhuman agency of money has been a central problem of the modern period, and the history of European ...
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... things which the court cannot provide . I argue , however , that in the novel " home " serves the same metaphorical function that the Bank of England serves in the financial discourse of this period : both promise an end to circulation ...
... things which the court cannot provide . I argue , however , that in the novel " home " serves the same metaphorical function that the Bank of England serves in the financial discourse of this period : both promise an end to circulation ...
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