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Family fictions and family facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the population question in England, 1798-1859

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics - Vol. 54Publication details: London Routledge 2014Description: 294 pISBN:
  • 9781138007017
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.85094209034 C6F2
Summary: 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. (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138007017/)
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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.
(http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138007017/)

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