Pride and Profit The Intersection of Jane Austen and Adam Smith

Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austen’s novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austen’s novels and how Smith’s and Austen’s perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution.

About the author

Cecil E. Bohanon is professor of economics at Ball State University.Michelle Albert Vachris is professor of economics at Christopher Newport University.

Summary

Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austen’s novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austen’s novels and how Smith’s and Austen’s perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Cecil E. Vachris Bohanon, Cecil E. Bohanon, Michelle Albert Vachris, Bohanon Cecil E., Vachris Michelle Albert
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.09.2017
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781498530262
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3026-2
• Pages: 202
• Series: Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Capitalist Thought: Studies in; Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Capitalist Thought: Studies in
• Subjects: Business & Economics / General, Economics, finance, business & management, Adam Smith, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Business and Management, Jane Austen, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Economic theory & philosophy, Enlightenment, Northanger Abbey, Economic theory and philosophy, Theory of Moral Sentiments, Bourgeois Virtue