A tale of two capitalisms sacred economics in nineteenth-century Britain /

Rajan, Supritha.

A tale of two capitalisms sacred economics in nineteenth-century Britain / Supritha Rajan. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (viii, 354 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



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