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Maria Edgeworth: Early 19th-Century Celebrity Novelist and… Key Contributor to the Birth of Classical Economics?
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Maria Edgeworth: Early 19th-Century Celebrity Novelist and… Key Contributor to the Birth of Classical Economics?

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London society buzzed with one name that spring: Miss Edgeworth. The year was 1813. The Regency era was in full swing, and the upper class had assembled for the season in a pastel whirl of lace and…

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Odd Lots: The Forgotten Godmother of Economic Literature

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Regency-era novelist Maria Edgeworth was famous for including economic concepts into her novels, including the idea of productive labor. Her works were ahead of her time and enormously influential, yet her name is hardly ever mentioned in the history of…

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