original ) (raw )"Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." — John Maynard Keynes, quoted by Paul Krugman, New York Times (7 May 2006)
General France vs. England: Mid-nineteenth-century trade and economic theory Nineteenth-Century Britain, a Nation of Debtors Money — the Apogee of Human Tolerance and the Destroyer of Honour, Loyalty, Morality and Love Sheffield’s Restrictive Guilds and later trade unions Mid-Victorian England's Industrial Dominance Bankruptcy in Victorian England — Threat or Myth? "For Godsake be done with railways and shares!" — the Railway Panics of the 1840s The Railway Mania of the 1840s Banking, Finance, Service Work and the Growth of Victorian Financial Markets The Anti-Technological Bias of Victorian Education and Britain's Economic Decline The Racist Origins of the Idea that Economics was "the Dismal Science" Malthus, Mill, Carlyle, Marx, and Economics as a “Dismal Science” Currency, Wages, and the Cost of Living 1844 Bank Charter Act codified the gold standard Wages, the Cost of Living, Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money The Price of Bread: Poverty, Purchasing Power, and The Victorian Laborer's Standard of Living Wages and Cost of Living in the Victorian Era Debtors in Charles Dickens's Life and Work British Currency before 1971 Inflation and Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money Victorian advertising Victorian Finance and Financial Markets Finance as Victorian England’s dominant service industry Agressive growth of London’s credit markets in the 1860s following the relaxing of limited liability laws Gladstone’s centralization of budget and economic processes in the Treasury and Bank of England controlled national and imperial economic policy Historical, political, and economic contexts of Victorian finance London’s credit market shifts from domestic to international bills Development of “gentlemanly capitalism” naturalize shift of political power from landed gentry to financial industry The Bank of England and the London Money Market in the Nineteenth Century Abandonment and Restoration of the Gold Standard How Victorians Invested Capital Personal capitalism and the survival of the family firm in Victorian England Collapse of a major investment firm — Overend, Gurney, and Company The Victorian Invention of the Modern Company Victorian Bank Accounts as Material for Research Swindlers & Financial Collapse in Victorian Economic History and Literature The Financial Panic of 1826 Classical Economists and Their Popularizers Thomas Robert Malthus Thomas Robert Malthus Thomas Malthus' "Essay on Population" Thomas Robert Malthus on "Corrective" and "Preventative" Checks to Population Irony in Thomas Malthus' "Essay on Population" Harriet Martineau John Ramsay McCollough (material needed) David Ricardo David Ricardo: A Brief Biography David Ricardo's Economic Theories Adam Smith Introduction Adam Smith's Laissez-Faire Policies A Corrective to common views of Smith's ideas of Laissez-Faire The Division of Labor Opponents of the Classical Economists Thomas Carlyle Alfred Marshall Charles Dickens John Ruskin From Labor to Value: Marx, Ruskin, and the Critique of Capitalism Miscellaneous Classical Economics, Productive, and Unproductive Labor in Victorian England The Economics of Authorship The Shaping Influence of the Marketplace The Financial Problems of Writing for the Stage How Did Nineteenth-Century British and American Authors Get Paid? Dickens Wrote for Money! Thackeray Defends Popular Culture and Professional Authors The economic relations of author, publisher, bookseller, and reader and artist, dealer, and patron Lee Erickson on Literature, the Marketplace, and the Changing Fortunes of the Nineteenth-Century Essay Revolutionary Pickwick: Modern Authorship, Mass Audience, and the Victorian Publishing Industry
The Economics of Publication, Marketing, and Distribution PublishersVictorian Bestsellers, 1837-61 Overpricing the triple-decker Mudie's and other lending libraries Publishing in Parts, Periodicals, and Dickens's Working Methods Triple-deckers How Nineteenth-Century British and American Books (Considered as Physical Objects) Differed The Economics of Victorian music publishing and performance English Reprints (Thackeray) European Reprints and Translations (Thackeray) Copyright Copyrights and Contracts (chapter in Philip Shillingsburg's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray Copyright law and piracy of music Nineteenth-Century British and American Copyright Law From Pirates to Partners: Thackeray's American Publishers Dickens's 1842 Reading Tour: Launching the Copyright Question in Tempestuous Seas Dickens's 1867-68 Reading Tour: Re-Opening the Copyright Question A Canadian Satirist Looks at Nineteenth-Century British and American Copyright Law The Visual Arts Victorian Art Criticism and the Rise of a Middle-Class Audience Conservative Reactions to the Rise of a Mass Audience for the Arts Victorian Art Criticism: Battling for the Minds of the Audience The Power of the Press and Victorian Art Criticism Related Victorian Political History Chartism and The Chartist Movement Reform Acts Child Labor Social Class Capitalism Corn Laws The South Sea Bubble Reviews Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius The Industrial Revolution: Selected Bibliographies The Industrial Revolution — Economic Factors and Contexts Science, Technology, and the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution and Victorian Culture The Industrial Revolution, Education, and Literacy The Industrial Revolution, Workers, and the Working Classes The Industrial Revolution and Social History Individual Industries and the Industrial Revolution
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