Fiction, famine, and the rise of economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland / Gordon Bigelow.
At the time of the Irish Famine, novels by Dickens and Gaskell, and commentaries on the famine, introduced a new theory of individual expression, which gradually replaced the older ideas of political economy, and became the foundation for modern concepts of capitalism based on the desires of the ind...
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