Examine the significance of Ruskin’s views on Political Economy of his age.

Ruskin’s ideas on the political economy of his time are very significant. Though they were condemned as windy hysterics, intolerable twaddle and the like, but their significance in views of the growing menace of materialism cannot be undervalued. Ruskin was deeply fed up with the growing materialism and its consequent evils. He was convinced that a nation loses its glory when it adds nothing to