Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain
- ISBN-10
- 0198206984
- ISBN-13
- 9780198206989
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Geoffrey Russell Searle
Description
How could Victorian capitalist values be harmonized with Christian beliefs and concepts of public morality and social duty? This book explores ideas about citizenship and public virtue and how public morality was reconciled with the market.
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