On demand : writing for the market in early modern England
Baker, David JAuthor
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
c2010.
In early modern England, while moralists railed against the theatre as wasteful and depraved, and inflation whittled away at the value of wages, people attended the theatre in droves. This book draws on recent economic history and theory to account for this puzzling consumer behaviour. The author shows that during this period, demand itself, with its massed acquisitive energies, transformed the English economy.
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In early modern England, while moralists railed against the theatre as wasteful and depraved, and inflation whittled away at the value of wages, people attended the theatre in droves. This book draws on recent economic history and theory to account for this puzzling consumer behaviour. The author shows that during this period, demand itself, with its massed acquisitive energies, transformed the English economy.
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