Freedom in Constitutional Contract: Perspectives of a Political Economist

1979 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Hebert ◽  
James M. Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Political Economist

Victorian Values

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinah Birch
Keyword(s):  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Political Economist ◽  
Sensation Novels ◽  
Difficult Times

The contested values associated with the term ‘Victorian’ call for fresh and informed consideration in the light of far-reaching changes brought about by the global economic downturn. Victorian writers engaged with public questions that were often associated with the issues we must now address, and their vigorously contentious responses reflect a drive to influence a wide audience with their ideas. Fiction of the period, including the sensation novels of the 1860s, provide telling examples of these developments in mid-Victorian writing; but non-fictional texts, including those of the philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill and the critic John Ruskin, also question the foundations of social thought. As they challenged traditional genre boundaries through the innovative forms that emerged across a range of diverse works, many Victorian authors argued for closer links between the discourses of emotion and those of logic. These are difficult times for researchers and critics, but the stringencies we find ourselves confronting can provide opportunities to create connections of the kind that the Victorians chose to make, bringing together different genres of writing and disciplines of thought, and arguing for a more generous understanding of our responsibilities towards each other.

Robbins as a Political Economist: A Response to O'Brien

1989 ◽  
Vol 99 (396) ◽  
pp. 471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Wright
Keyword(s):  
Political Economist
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