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Course Title: Art and Economics in the Bloomsbury Group

Instructors: Dr. Barry Falk (Professor of Economics) and Dr. Maureen Shanahan (Associate Professor of Art History)

Some features of the Bloomsbury Group that are most attractive and intriguing are (1) the remarkable amount of intellectual firepower that they could muster collectively; (2) the general commitment of most of them to revolutionary change in the various areas that they represented - art, economics, fiction, ethics, biography, criticism, history, political philosophy, psychology, esthetics; (3) the attention members paid to the thoughts of others in the Group and the inclusion of the ideas of the others in their own work; (4) their candor with others and with themselves; (5) their sense of fun and joie de vivre, combined with (6) their commitment to hard work (on whatever they were engaged)and improvement of human welfare.

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