John Ruskin's Political Economy (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics, 32)

✍ Scribed by Willi Henderson

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 217
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 texts to reevaluate Ruskins economic and social criticism. By identifying Ruskin's rhetoric, and by reading his work through that of Plato, Xenophon, and John Stuart Mill, Willie Henderson reveals how Ruskin manipulated a knowledge base. Moreover in analysis of the writings of William Smart, John Bates Clark and Alfred Marshall, the author shows that John Ruskin's influence on the cultural significance of economics and on notions of economic well-being has been considerable.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
1 Reason, rhetoric and John Ruskin......Page 18
2 Why read Ruskin on political economy?......Page 38
3 Ruskin on economic agency......Page 59
4 Xenophon, Ruskin and economic management......Page 81
5 Plato and Ruskin: searching for economic justice......Page 103
6 John Ruskin reading John Stuart Mill......Page 124
7 Systematic and anti-systematic thinking......Page 142
8 William Smart (1853–1915): economist and Ruskinian?......Page 161
9 Ruskinian influences on other theorists......Page 177
Notes......Page 193
Bibliography......Page 205
Index......Page 214

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