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The Economist: Henry Thoreau and Enterprise

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  • Neufeldt, Leonard N.

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This is a study of Thoreau's participation in the economic discourse of his time, when New England and America underwent an unprecedented transformation in economic thinking and behaviour. The first part of the book examines Thoreau's responses to economic and cultural conditions as a literary artist, who identified his writing as his vocation. The second part, which uses Walden as an example, attempts to offer an answer to the question of why and how Thoreau, who was very much contained by his culture and its conventions, also contested the limitations of those conventions and used his condition to transform them.

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  • Neufeldt, Leonard N., 1989. "The Economist: Henry Thoreau and Enterprise," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780195057898.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780195057898
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    Cited by:

    1. Christian Becker, 2008. "Thoreau's economic philosophy," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(2), pages 211-246.
    2. Michael Wattsee, 2002. "How Economists Use Literature and Drama," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(4), pages 377-386, December.
    3. James E. Hartley, 2001. "The Great Books and Economics," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(2), pages 147-159, January.

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