A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Synopsis

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. Supritha Rajan. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 321-346) And Index.