A tale of two capitalisms : sacred economics in nineteenth-century Britain

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Economies of sacrifice -- Circular economies, sacred economies: the sacrifice of labor in John Ruskin and nineteenth-century political economy -- Rational agents, ritual actions -- The visible hand : models of communality and economic information systems -- The making of household gods: value, totems, and kinship in the nineteenth-century domestic novel and Victorian anthropology -- Household gods revisited in George Eliot and Anthony Trollope -- Magical technologies : forces of interest in Rudyard Kipling and Marshallian economics -- Electric Kim and the ludic rituals of empire -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index