Wealth and life : essays on the intellectual history of political economy in Britain, 1848-1914 / Donald Winch.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-405) and index.

Prologue : economists and human beings -- Sentimental enemies, advanced intellects, and falling profits -- Wild natural beauty, the religion of humanity, and unearned increments -- 'Poor cretinous wretch' : Ruskin's aversion to Mill -- 'Last man of the ante-Mill period' : Walter Bagehot -- 'As much a matter of heart as head' : Jevons's antipathy -- Louis Mallet and the philosophy of free exchange -- Henry Sidgwick and economic socialism -- The old generation of political economists and the new -- Wealth, well-being, and the academic economist -- 'A composition of successive heresies' : the case of J.A. Hobson -- Academic minds -- Appendix: Mr. Gradgrind and Jerusalem.

Donald Winch completes the intellectual history of political economy begun in 'Riches and Poverty' (1996). A major theme addressed in both volumes is the 'bitter argument between economists and human beings' provoked by Britain's industrial revolution.