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This dissertation looks at the interaction between economics and public policy. Contemporary public policy debates often rely on economic analysis and prognosis. Economists often seek to inform and reform public policy. In three chapters, I complicate the notion of the economist…

This dissertation demonstrates how nineteenth-century American authors deployed woman-centered fictional narratives to interrogate the rise of materialist epistemology brought about by scientific professionalization. Professionalization, which peaked in the 1840s, transformed Am…