224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume offers an exciting new reading of John Ruskin's economic and social criticism, based on recent research into rhetoric in economics. Willie Henderson uses notions derived from literary criticism, the rhetorical turn in economics and more conventional approaches to historical economic texts to reevaluate Ruskins economic and social criticism. By identifying Ruskin's rhetoric, and by... Read more
1 Reason, rhetoric and John Ruskin 2 Why read Ruskin on political economy? 3 Ruskin on economic agency 4 Xenophon, Ruskin and economic management 5 Plato and Ruskin: searching for economic justice 6 John Ruskin reading John Stuart Mill 7 Systematic and anti-systematic thinking: Ruskin and Mill revisited 8 William Smart (1853–1915): economist and Ruskinian? 9 Ruskinian influences on other theorists: John Bates Clark an1d Alfred Marshall
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William Henderson (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA)
...a reading of Ruskin which is original, new and fecund. - Luigino Bruni, History of Economic Ideas IX 2001\1
