The Insatiability of Human Wants
Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society

- Contents

Introduction
1: On the Insatiability of Human Wants: Economic and Aesthetic "Man"
2: Is Market Society the Fin of History? Market Utopias and Dystopias from Babbage to Schreiner
3: Modernity and Progress toward Individualism in Economics and Aesthetics
4: Production, Reproduction, and Pleasure in Victorian Aesthetics
5: Practical Aesthetics: Rolfe, Wilde, and New Women at the Fin de Siècle
6: Practical Aesthetics II: On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in the 1980s
7: Practical Aesthetics III: Homelessness as an "Aesthetic Issue"
Conclusion
Appendix: Taste, or Sex and Class as Culture
Index
Economics and Business: Economics--History
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
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