Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England by Jonathan Gil Harris

Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England

Jonathan Gil Harris

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From French Physiocrat theories of the blood-like circulation of wealth to Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the market, the body has played a crucial role in Western perceptions of the economic. In Renaissance culture, however, the dominant bodily...

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