The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Interface of Literature and Economics

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Martha Woodmansee, Mark Osteen
Routledge, Oct 9, 2005 - Business & Economics - 464 pages
This collection brings together twenty-seven essays by influential literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. Contributors include: Jean-Joseph Goux, Marc Shell. This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis. It will appeal to economists and literary theorists with an interest beyond the narrower confines of their subject.

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Contents

an historical introduction
2
PART I Language and money
43
2 The issue of representation
44
Defoes economies of identity
65
money and semiosis in eighteenthcentury German language theory
82
5 Cash check or charge?
98
PART II Critical economics
112
6 Dominant economic metaphors and the postmodern subversion of the subject
113
13 Sades ethical economies
221
14 Fugitive properties
238
PART V Economies of authorship
250
Trollopes addictive realism
251
the historical transformation of brand loyalty
262
17 Smoking the hack and the general equivalent
274
PART VI Modernism and markets
285
18 Who paid for modernism?
286

formalism selfconsciousness and the improvement of economics
129
8 The ends of economics
150
PART III Economics of the irrational
163
9 A portrait of Homo economicus as a Young Man
164
Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy
180
Lyotard and accounting for the unaccountable
196
debts and bondage
209
metaphors of capital and exchange
210
John Maynard Keyness correspondence with Franklin DRoosevelt
300
The Great Gatsby and deficit spending
311
PART VII Critical exchanges
323
21 Literarycultural Economies economic discourse and the question of Marxism
324
22 Reply to Amariglio and Ruccios Literarycultural economies economic discourse and the question of Marxism
340
23 Symbolic Economics
346
Index
356
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