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John Ramsden's fascinating, entertaining history of eleven great poets who made significant contributions to economic theory and practice, from Shelley to Hilaire Belloc and John Ruskin.
List of contents
Introduction 7 Daniel Defoe 1660-1731 17 Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 35 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 53 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 71 Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832 89 Thomas de Quincey 1785-1859 107 John Ruskin 1819-1900 123 William Morris 1834-1896 145 George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 161 Hilaire Belloc 1870-1953 181 Ezra Pound 1885-1972 195 Further Reading 213 Acknowledgements 216 Index 217
About the author
After reading history and economics at Cambridge and two years in a merchant bank,
John Ramsden joined the Foreign Office in 1975. He was posted in Dakar and Vienna, and then spent two years in Hanoi (chronicled in
Hanoi After the War, Skira 2017). The rest of his career was spent in Europe, including Berlin, Geneva and Croatia (as Ambassador from 2004-2008). He has also written
The Box in the Attic, based on letters from relatives who took part in some of the great events of the last century.
Summary
John Ramsden’s fascinating, entertaining history of eleven great poets who made significant contributions to economic theory and practice, from Shelley to Hilaire Belloc and John Ruskin.
