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

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

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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.
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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.