Family Fictions and Family Facts

Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England 1798-1859
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-138-00701-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Classical political economy rests on the assumption that the market and the family are overlapping and mutually dependent realms, dominated in turn by economic men and domestic women. Here, Brian Cooper explores the role of economic theory in 'normalizing' the family in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Drawing on a wide range of sources - novels, books on etiquette and statistical sources, as well as works of economics - the book examines the impacts of these different forms on contemporary debate and will be of interest to historians of economic thought, feminist economics and those interested in rhetoric and economics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Classification Comes Home to the Family 2. Family and the Domestication of Passions 2. Family, the Manners of the People, and Political Economy 3. Harriet Martineau’s 'Embodied Principles' of Political Economy: Whose Bodies, What Principles? 4. There is no Place for Such a Family 5. What is to be Deemed a Family? 5. However You Define Family

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Cooper