"Illustrations of Political Economy, Volume 1 (of 9)" by Harriet Martineau is a series of stories from the 1800's that teaches economic ideas through the fictional lives of characters. The volume attempts to explain the basics of economics by showing events through characters. It focuses on how wealth and work are viewed in a society. To make the ideas easier to understand, Martineau uses stories about people dealing with different problems. The initial story is about a British group in southern Africa whose lives get turned upside down, so the settlers gather together to decide how to survive and rebuild what they lost. The community leaders figure out a plan for survival together. They pray hoping rebuild their lives. The story shows them trying to figure out how to find food and build their homes. The settlers also wonder about what wealth really means and how they should work together to overcome the problems they face. In the first story, Martineau sets up a way to examine labor, production, and the money aspects of community life.
Illustrations of political economy, Volume 1 (of 9)
By Harriet Martineau
A shattered British settlement in Africa must band together, pray, and figure out how to rebuild their lives and their understanding of wealth after a devastating attack tears everything apart.
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About the AuthorHarriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation."
Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation."
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