TY - BOOK AU - Gagnier, Regenia AU - Gagnier, Regenia TI - The insatiability of human wants : : economics and aesthetics in market society SN - 9780226278544 U1 - 330.1 GAG PY - 2000/// CY - Chicago PB - : University of Chicago Press, KW - Economics KW - Economics and literature KW - Economic history -- 19th century KW - Culture -- Economic aspects N1 - 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 Siecle -- 6. Practical Aesthetics II: On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in the 1980s -- 7. Practical Aesthetics III: Homelessness as an "Aesthetic Issue" -- App. Taste, or Sex and Class as Culture N2 - This work begins during a key transitional moment in aesthetic and economic theory, 1871, when both disciplines underwent a turn from production to consumption models. The author traces the shift in Western thought from models of production to consumption ER -