"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

    • 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)

    • Copyright

  • 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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