A tale of two capitalisms : : sacred economics in nineteenth-century Britain / / Supritha Rajan.

• Author: Rajan, Supritha.
• TeilnehmendeR: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century British capitalism, its architects, and its critics

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Economies of sacrifice -- Circular economies, sacred economies: the sacrifice of labor in John Ruskin and nineteenth-century political economy -- Rational agents, ritual actions -- The visible hand : models of communality and economic information systems -- The making of household gods: value, totems, and kinship in the nineteenth-century domestic novel and Victorian anthropology -- Household gods revisited in George Eliot and Anthony Trollope -- Magical technologies : forces of interest in Rudyard Kipling and Marshallian economics -- Electric Kim and the ludic rituals of empire -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.