Victorian Economics: An Overview

The Victorian Web is a project funded in part by the University Scholars Program, National University of Singapore

General

• Mid-Victorian England's Industrial Dominance
• How Victorians Invested Capital
• The Victorian Invention of the Modern Company
• Bankruptcy in Victorian England -- Threat or Myth?
• The Railway Mania of the 1840s
• The Bank of England and the London Money Market in the Nineteenth Century
• Abandonment and Restoration of the Gold Standard
• The Anti-Technological Bias of Victorian Education and Britain's Economic Decline
• Victorian Bank Accounts as Material for Research
• The Racist Origins of the Idea that Economics was "the Dismal Science"

Currency, Wages, and the Cost of Living

• 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
• British Currency before 1971
• Inflation and Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money

Classical Economists and Their Popularizers

• Thomas Robert Malthus
• Thomas Robert Malthus
• Thomas Malthus' "Essay on Population"
• Thomas Robert Malthus on "Corrective" and "Preventative" Checks to Population
• Irony in Thomas Malthus' "Essay on Population"
• Harriet Martineau
• John Ramsay McCollough
• David Ricardo
  • David Ricardo: A Brief Biography
  • David Ricardo's Economic Theories
• Adam Smith
  • Introduction
  • Adam Smith's Laissez-Faire Policies
  • The Division of Labor

Opponents of the Classical Economists

• Thomas Carlyle
• Charles Dickens
• John Ruskin

Economics, Literature, and the Arts

The Economics of Authorship
• How Did Nineteenth-Century British and American Authors Get Paid?
• Dickens Wrote for Money!
• Thackeray Defends Popular Culture and Professional Authors
• Lee Erickson on Literature, the Marketplace, and the Changing Fortunes of the Nineteenth-Century Essay
• Victorian authors and mass audiences
• Revolutionary Pickwick: Modern Authorship, Mass Audience, and the Victorian Publishing Industry
• The Economics of Publication, Marketing, and Distribution
  • Publishers
  • Book pricing and the distribution of literature
    • Victorian Bestsellers, 1837-61
    • Overpricing the triple-decker
  • Mudie's and other lending libraries
  • Periodical publication
    • Publishing in Parts, Periodicals, and Dickens's Working Methods
  • Triple-deckers
  • How Nineteenth-Century British and American Books (Considered as Physical Objects) Differed
• Copyright
  • Nineteenth-Century British and American Copyright Law
  • 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
• Labour, Time and Money in Henry C. BarkleyÌs Accounts of Bulgaria (three dozen screens)

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

Last modified 7 May 2006