Family Fictions and Family Facts

<p>Classical political economy rests on the assumption that the market and the family are overlapping and mutually dependent realms dominated in turn by economic men and domestic women. Here Brian Cooper explores the role of economic theory in 'normalizing' the family in the first half of the nineteenth century. </p><p>Drawing on a wide range of sources - novels books on etiquette and statistical sources as well as works of economics - the book examines the impacts of these different forms on contemporary debate and will be of interest to historians of economic thought feminist economics and those interested in rhetoric and economics.</p>