Donald Winch (University of Sussex)

Wealth and Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Studying those intellectual pursuits that have shaped the understanding of Britain as an industrial society and continue to influence cultural responses to the moral questions posed by economic life, Donald Winch addresses the 'bitter argument between economists and human beings' provoked by Britain's industrial revolution.

Produktdetails

• Ideas in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 766g
• ISBN-13: 9780521887533
• ISBN-10: 0521887534
• Artikelnr.: 25546096

Autorenporträt

Donald Winch is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: economists and human beings
Part I. Mill's Principles: 1. Sentimental enemies, advanced intellects, and falling profits
2. Wild natural beauty, the religion of humanity, and unearned increments
Part II. Three Responses to Mill: 3. 'Poor cretinous wretch': Ruskin's antagonism
4. 'Last man of the ante-Mill period': Walter Bagehot
5. 'As much a matter of heart as head': Jevons's aversion
Part III. Free Exchange and Economic Socialism: 6. Louis Mallet and the philosophy of free exchange
7. Henry Sidgwick and economic socialism
Part IV. Foxwell and Marshall: 8. The old generation of political economists and the new
9. Wealth, wellbeing and the academic economist
Part V. Heretics and Professionals: 10. 'A composition of successive heresies': J. A. Hobson
11. Academic minds
Appendix: Mr Gradgrind and Jerusalem
Bibliographic abbreviations and notes.