"Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." — John Maynard Keynes, quoted by Paul Krugman, New York Times (7 May 2006)
General
France vs. England: Mid-nineteenth-century trade and economic theory
Nineteenth-Century Britain, a Nation of Debtors
Money — the Apogee of Human Tolerance and the Destroyer of Honour, Loyalty, Morality and Love
Sheffield’s Restrictive Guilds and later trade unions
Mid-Victorian England's Industrial Dominance
Bankruptcy in Victorian England — Threat or Myth?
"For Godsake be done with railways and shares!" — the Railway Panics of the 1840s
The Railway Mania of the 1840s
Banking, Finance, Service Work and the Growth of Victorian Financial Markets
The Anti-Technological Bias of Victorian Education and Britain's Economic Decline
The Racist Origins of the Idea that Economics was "the Dismal Science"
Malthus, Mill, Carlyle, Marx, and Economics as a “Dismal Science”
Currency, Wages, and the Cost of Living
1844 Bank Charter Act codified the gold standard
Wages, the Cost of Living, Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money
The Price of Bread: Poverty, Purchasing Power, and The Victorian Laborer's Standard of Living
Wages and Cost of Living in the Victorian Era
Debtors in Charles Dickens's Life and Work
British Currency before 1971
Inflation and Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money
Victorian advertising
Victorian Finance and Financial Markets
Finance as Victorian England’s dominant service industry
Agressive growth of London’s credit markets in the 1860s following the relaxing of limited liability laws
Gladstone’s centralization of budget and economic processes in the Treasury and Bank of England controlled national and imperial economic policy
Historical, political, and economic contexts of Victorian finance
London’s credit market shifts from domestic to international bills
Development of “gentlemanly capitalism” naturalize shift of political power from landed gentry to financial industry
The Bank of England and the London Money Market in the Nineteenth Century
Abandonment and Restoration of the Gold Standard
How Victorians Invested Capital
Personal capitalism and the survival of the family firm in Victorian England
Collapse of a major investment firm — Overend, Gurney, and Company
The Victorian Invention of the Modern Company
Victorian Bank Accounts as Material for Research
Swindlers & Financial Collapse in Victorian Economic History and Literature
The Financial Panic of 1826
Classical Economists and Their Popularizers
Thomas Robert Malthus
Harriet Martineau
John Ramsay McCollough (material needed)
David Ricardo
Adam Smith
Opponents of the Classical Economists
Thomas Carlyle
Alfred Marshall
Charles Dickens
John Ruskin
From Labor to Value: Marx, Ruskin, and the Critique of Capitalism
Miscellaneous
Classical Economics, Productive, and Unproductive Labor in Victorian England
The Economics of Authorship
The Shaping Influence of the Marketplace
The Financial Problems of Writing for the Stage
How Did Nineteenth-Century British and American Authors Get Paid?
Dickens Wrote for Money!
Thackeray Defends Popular Culture and Professional Authors
The economic relations of author, publisher, bookseller, and reader and artist, dealer, and patron
Lee Erickson on Literature, the Marketplace, and the Changing Fortunes of the Nineteenth-Century Essay
Revolutionary Pickwick: Modern Authorship, Mass Audience, and the Victorian Publishing Industry
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The Economics of Publication, Marketing, and Distribution
Publishers
Victorian Bestsellers, 1837-61
Overpricing the triple-decker
Mudie's and other lending libraries
Publishing in Parts, Periodicals, and Dickens's Working Methods
Triple-deckers
How Nineteenth-Century British and American Books (Considered as Physical Objects) Differed
The Economics of Victorian music publishing and performance
English Reprints (Thackeray)
European Reprints and Translations (Thackeray)
Copyrights and Contracts (chapter in Philip Shillingsburg's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray
Copyright law and piracy of music
Nineteenth-Century British and American Copyright Law
From Pirates to Partners: Thackeray's American Publishers
Dickens's 1842 Reading Tour: Launching the Copyright Question in Tempestuous Seas
Dickens's 1867-68 Reading Tour: Re-Opening the Copyright Question
A Canadian Satirist Looks at Nineteenth-Century British and American Copyright Law
The Visual Arts
Victorian Art Criticism and the Rise of a Middle-Class Audience
Conservative Reactions to the Rise of a Mass Audience for the Arts
Victorian Art Criticism: Battling for the Minds of the Audience
The Power of the Press and Victorian Art Criticism
Related Victorian Political History
Chartism and The Chartist Movement
Reform Acts
Child Labor
Social Class
Capitalism
Corn Laws
The South Sea Bubble
Reviews
Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
The Industrial Revolution: Selected Bibliographies
The Industrial Revolution — Economic Factors and Contexts
Science, Technology, and the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution and Victorian Culture
The Industrial Revolution, Education, and Literacy
The Industrial Revolution, Workers, and the Working Classes
The Industrial Revolution and Social History
Individual Industries and the Industrial Revolution
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