From Political Economy To Economics Through Nineteenth Century Literature

Author : Elaine Hadley,Audrey Jaffe,Sarah Winter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030241582

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From Political Economy to Economics through Nineteenth-Century Literature by Elaine Hadley,Audrey Jaffe,Sarah Winter Pdf

Focusing on the transition from political economy to economics, this volume seeks to restore social content to economic abstractions through readings of nineteenth-century British and American literature. The essays gathered here, by new as well as established scholars of literature and economics, link important nineteenth-century texts and histories with present-day issues such as exploitation, income inequality, globalization, energy consumption, property ownership and rent, human capital, corporate power, and environmental degradation. Organized according to key concepts for future research, the collection has a clear interdisciplinary, humanities approach and international reach. These diverse essays will interest students and scholars in literature, history, political science, economics, sociology, law, and cultural studies, in addition to readers generally interested in the Victorian period.

Author : Claudia C. Klaver
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814209440

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A/moral Economics by Claudia C. Klaver Pdf

A/Moral Economics is an interdisciplinary historical study that examines the ways which social "science" of economics emerged through the discourse of the literary, namely the dominant moral and fictional narrative genres of early and mid-Victorian England. In particular, this book argues that the classical economic theory of early-nineteenth-century England gained its broad cultural authority not directly, through the well- known texts of such canonical economic theorists as David Ricardo, but indirectly through the narratives constructed by Ricardo's popularizers John Ramsey McCulloch and Harriet Martineau. By reexamining the rhetorical and institutional contexts of classical political economy in the nineteenth century, A/Moral Economics repositions the popular writings of both supporters and detractors of political economy as central to early political economists' bids for a cultural voice. The now marginalized economic writings of McCulloch, Martineau, Henry Mayhew, and John Ruskin, as well as the texts of Charles Dickens and J. S. Mill, must be read as constituting in part the entities they have been read as merely criticizing. It is this repressed moral logic that resurfaces in a range of textual contradictions--not only in the writings of Ricardo's supporters, but, ironically, in those of his critics as well.

Author : Supritha Rajan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472904327

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A Tale of Two Capitalisms by Supritha Rajan Pdf

No questions are more pressing today than the ethical dimensions of global capitalism in relation to an unevenly secularized modernity. A Tale of Two Capitalisms offers a timely response to these questions by reexamining the intellectual history of capitalist economics during the nineteenth century. Rajan’s ambitious book traces the neglected relationships between nineteenth-century political economy, anthropology, and literature in order to demonstrate how these discourses buttress a dominant narrative of self-interested capitalism that obscures a submerged narrative within political economy. This submerged narrative discloses political economy’s role in burgeoning theories of religion, as well as its underlying ethos of reciprocity, communality, and just distribution. Drawing on an impressive range of literary, anthropological, and economic writings from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century, Rajan offers an inventive, interdisciplinary account of why this second narrative of capitalism has so long escaped our notice. The book presents an unprecedented genealogy of key anthropological and economic concepts, demonstrating how notions of sacrifice, the sacred, ritual, totemism, and magic remained conceptually intertwined with capitalist theories of value and exchange in both sociological and literary discourses. Rajan supplies an original framework for discussing the ethical ideals that continue to inform contemporary global capitalism and its fraught relationship to the secular. Its revisionary argument brings new insight into the history of capitalist thought and modernity that will engage scholars across a variety of disciplines.

Author : Catherine Gallagher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400826841

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The Body Economic by Catherine Gallagher Pdf

The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic "life," making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.

Author : Richard Adelman,Catherine Packham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351009508

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Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850 by Richard Adelman,Catherine Packham Pdf

This edited collection, Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, aims to address the genealogy and formation of political economy as a knowledge project from 1720 to 1850. Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and analyses the formative moves, both epistemological and representational, which proved foundational to the emergence of political economy as a dominant discourse of modernity. The collection also explores political economy’s relation to other discourses and knowledge practices in this period; representation in and of political economy; abstraction and political economy; fictional mediations and interrogations of political economy; and political economy and its ‘others’, including political economy and affect, and political economy and the aesthetic. Essays presented in this text are at once historical and conceptual in focus, and manifest literary critical disciplinary expertise whilst being of genuinely broad and interdisciplinary interest. Amongst the writers whose work is addressed are: Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, David Hume, Thomas Malthus, Jane Marcet, J. S. Mill, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith. The introduction, by the editors, sets up the conceptual, theoretical and analytical framework explored by each of the essays. The final essay and response bring the concerns of the volume up to date by engaging with current economic and financial realities, by, respectively, showing how an informed and critical history of political economy could transform current economic practices, and by exploring the abundance of recent conceptual art addressing representation and the unpresentable in economic practice.

Author : Maria Eugenia Mata,Michalis Psalidopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134514953

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Economic Thought and Policy in Less Developed Europe by Maria Eugenia Mata,Michalis Psalidopoulos Pdf

The essays in this volume explore and discuss the process of dissemination of economic ideas among Europe's less developed countries and regions, as well as the interaction between economic thought and economic policy in different times and places during the nineteenth century. The comparative approach adopted sheds new light on the course of economic development in Europe's less developed countries in the nineteenth century and the role played by political economy. Amongst a host of others, the topics covered include: economic policy in Denmark monetary and trade policy in Norway the influence of the German Historical School in Finland land Reform and the abolition of serfdom in Russia and in Poland With contributions that disclose important insights into national traditions in economic thought and policy, and the diffusion of ideas in Europe, this work will be essential reading for all scholars of the history of economic thought.

Author : Daniel Bivona,Marlene Tromp
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821445471

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Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century by Daniel Bivona,Marlene Tromp Pdf

Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture — particularly literary output — through the lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of Victorian studies, Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, have collected contributions from leading thinkers that push New Economic Criticism in new and exciting directions. Spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts an inclusive, global view of the cultural effects of economics and exchange. Contributors use the concept of abstraction to show how economic thought and concerns around money permeated all aspects of nineteenth-century culture, from the language of wills to arguments around the social purpose of art. The characteristics of investment and speculation; the fraught symbolic and practical meanings of paper money to the Victorians; the shifting value of goods, services, and ideas; the evolving legal conceptualizations of artistic ownership — all of these, contributors argue, are essential to understanding nineteenth-century culture in Britain and beyond. Contributors: Daniel Bivona, Suzanne Daly, Jennifer Hayward, Aeron Hunt, Roy Kreitner, Kathryn Pratt Russell, Cordelia Smith, and Marlene Tromp.

Author : Massimo Augello,Marco Guidi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134561650

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The Spread of Political Economy and the Professionalisation of Economists by Massimo Augello,Marco Guidi Pdf

This book expertly presents the first systematic research and comparative analysis ever attempted on the rise and early developments of the Economic Associations founded in Europe, the US and Japan during the nineteenth century. Contributors analyze the activities and debates promoted by these associations, evaluating their role in: the dissemination of political economy. the institutionalisation of economics. the construction of professional self-consciousness among economists. Individual chapters reconstruct the events that led to the foundation of economic societies in Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Japan and the US.

Author : Lana Dalley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000866674

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Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century by Lana Dalley Pdf

Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century is the first comprehensive collection of women’s economic writing in the long nineteenth century. The four-volume anthology includes writing from women around the world, showcases the wide variety and range of economic writing by women in the period, and establishes a tradition of women’s economic writing; selections include didactic tales, fictional illustrations, poetry, economic theory, social theory, reports, letters, novels, speeches, dialogues, and self-help books. The anthology is divided into eight themed sections: political economy, feminist economics, domestic economics, labor, philanthropy and poverty, consumerism, emigration and empire, and self-help. Each section begins with an introduction that tells a story about women writers’ relationship to the section theme and then provides an overview of the selections contained therein. Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century demonstrates just how common it was for women to write about economics in the nineteenth century and establishes important throughlines and trajectories within their body of work.

Author : Noel Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317588559

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The Market and its Critics (Routledge Revivals) by Noel Thompson Pdf

The Market and Its Critics, first published in 1988, considers the reaction of socialist writers to the growth of the market economy in nineteenth century Britain, and examines in detail the diverse elements of the critique which they formulated. Dr Thompson looks at the theoretic and thematic continuities and discontinuities over the century, structuring his study around the idea of a changing socialist response to the market economy. Much of the literature in question is comprehensive, perceptive and acute. However, the writers invariably discounted the possibility of the market playing a role in a future socialist or communist commonwealth. The solutions they posited to the problem were inapplicable to the increasingly industrial economy of the time. It was this that left their writing vulnerable to attack, and which had profound consequences both for the fate of the socialist political economy in nineteenth century Britain and its subsequent evolution in the twentieth century.

Author : Alon Kadish
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039287458

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The Oxford Economists in the Late Nineteenth Century by Alon Kadish Pdf

Author : Philip Steer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108484428

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Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature by Philip Steer Pdf

A transnational study of how settler colonialism remade the Victorian novel and political economy by challenging ideas of British identity.

Author : Gordon Bigelow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139440851

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Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland by Gordon Bigelow Pdf

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.

Author : Martha Woodmansee,Mark Osteen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134750443

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The New Economic Criticism by Martha Woodmansee,Mark Osteen Pdf

This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis. This collection brings together 27 essays by influential literary and cultural historians as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics.

Author : Murray Milgate,Shannon C. Stimson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691152349

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After Adam Smith by Murray Milgate,Shannon C. Stimson Pdf

'After Adam Smith' looks at how politics & political economy were articulated & altered in the century following the publication of Smith's 'Wealth of Nations'.