TY - BOOK ID - 30698506 TI - John Ruskin's political economy PY - 2000 SN - 1134636555 128033178X 0203024265 0203159462 0415200679 0415757681 9780203159460 9780415200677 9780203024263 9781134636501 9781134636549 9781134636556 9780415757683 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Economics KW - History KW - Ruskin, John, KW - Knowledge KW - Economics. KW - Ruskin, John KW - Rëskin, Dzhon, KW - Ruskin, KW - Ruskin, J. KW - Rŏsŭkʻin, KW - Modern painters, Author of, KW - Author of Modern painters, KW - Graduate of Oxford, KW - Rasukin, Jon, KW - ラスキンジョン, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30698506 AB - This volume offers an exciting new reading of John Ruskin's economic and social criticism, based on recent research into rhetoric in economics. Willie Henderson uses notions derived from literary criticism, the rhetorical turn in economics and more conventional approaches to historical economic texts to reevaluate Ruskins economic and social criticism. By identifying Ruskin's rhetoric, and by reading his work through that of Plato, Xenophon, and John Stuart Mill, Willie Henderson reveals how Ruskin manipulated a knowledge base. Moreover in analysis of the writings of William Smart, John Bates ER -