Critics of Capitalism
：Victorian Reactions to 'Political Economy'
( Cambridge English Prose Texts )
Publication subTitle ：Victorian Reactions to 'Political Economy'
Publication series ：Cambridge English Prose Texts
Author： Elisabeth Jay; Richard Jay
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 1986
E-ISBN: 9781139237796
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521319621
Subject： I109.4 近代（1640~1917年）
Keyword： 诗歌、韵文
Language： ENG
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Critics of Capitalism
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By the start of the Victorian period the school of British economists acknowledging Adam Smith as its master was in the ascendancy. 'Political Economy', a catch-all title which ignored the diversity of viewpoints to be found amongst the discipline's leading proponents, became associated in the popular mind with moral and political forces held to be uniquely conducive to the progress of an increasingly industrialised and competitive society. 'Political Economy' served in turn as the focus for critics of equally diverse moral and political persuasions, who sought to challenge the materialism of contemporary society and offer their own assessments of the profound social changes of the time. In the introductory essay to the collection of readings from such 'critics of capitalism', the editors review the principles of the early economists, the way in which these principles were appropriated and applied by their Victorian successors and the contrasting modes which critics of popular economic ideas assumed. Subsequent extracts from the writings of the Owenite Socialist John Bray, Carlyle, Marx and Engels, J. S. Mill, Ruskin, Arnold, T. H. Green, William Morris and G. B. Shaw, demonstrate both the breadth of the possible grounds for ideological opposition to the prevailing philosophy and the shifting nature of the debate as 'Political Economy' itself was revealed as incapable of explaining or responding to the changing conditions of the 1870s. Headnotes to the extracts describe the
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