Wealth and Life: Essays on the Intellectual His. Winch<|

Name: Wealth and Life: Essays on the Intellectual His. Winch<|
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Wealth and LifeEssays on the Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 18481914\nAuthor(s): Donald Winch\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521887533, 978-0521887533\nSynopsis\nDonald Winch completes the intellectual history of political economy begun in Riches and Poverty [tel]. A major theme addressed in both volumes is the 'bitter argument between economists and human beings' provoked by Britain's industrial revolution. Winch takes the argument from Mill's contributions to the 'condition-of-England' debate in 1848 through to the work on economic wellbeing of Alfred Marshall. The writings of major figures of the period are examined in a sequence of interlinked essays that ends with consideration of the twentieth-century fate of the debate between utilitarians and romantics in the hands of Leavis, Williams and Thompson. Donald Winch is one of Britain's most distinguished historians o.