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.