The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Interface of Literature and EconomicsMartha Woodmansee, Mark Osteen 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. |
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 |
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