The Victorian Crisis of Laissez-Faire: George Eliot, Political Economy, and the Common Good
探讨1870年代自由放任经济思想的危机，分析乔治·艾略特小说《丹尼尔·德龙达》如何与政治经济学家亨利·西奇威克对话，回应自我利益与公共利益的断裂，为理解经济思想与文学生产的关联提供视角。
This article argues that in the 1870s philosophical, economic, and literary ideas converged on a shared problematic: the perceived crisis of laissez-faire and the emergence of new arguments in favor of state intervention in the economy. George Eliot's last novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), offers a sophisticated intervention in these debates, and it is in dialogue with the thought of the Victorian political economist and moral philosopher Henry Sidgwick and his group. Eliot engages with the perceived break—diagnosed by Sidgwick and other political economists of the period—between self-interest and public interest and attempts to find a formal resolution for this problem. Her work constitutes a particularly significant response to the widely perceived late Victorian legitimation crisis of laissez-faire, and it can help us understand the broader discursive affinities between economic thinking and literary production in this period.