This volume offers an exciting new reading of John Ruskin's economic and social criticism, based on recent research into rhetoric in economics. Willie Henderson uses notions derived from literary criticism, the rhetorical turn in economics and more conventional approaches to historical economic text
John Ruskin's political economy
✍ Scribed by Henderson, Willie;Ruskin, John
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 217
- Series
- Routledge studies in the history of economics 32
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Table of Contents
Chapter one: Reason, Rhetoric and John Ruskin Chapter two: Why read Ruskin on political Economy? l Chapter three: Ruskin on Economic Agency Chapter four: Xenephon, Ruskin and Economic Management Chapter five: Plato and Ruskin: Searching for economic justice Chapter six: John Ruskin reading John Stuart Mill Chapter seven: Systematic and Anti-systematic thinking: Ruskin and Mill revisited Chapter eight: William Smart (1853 - 1915): Economist and Ruskinian Chapter nine: Ruskinian influences on other theorists: John Bates Clark and Alfred Marshall
✦ Subjects
19e siècle;Économie politique;Économie politique--Grande-Bretagne--Histoire--19e siècle;Histoire économique;Ruskin, John, -- (1819-1900);Économie politique -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle;Ruskin, John;Économie politique;Histoire économique;19e siècle;Grande-Bretagne
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