Economics As Literature

Author : Ҫınla Akdere
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351865587
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics and Literature written by Ҫınla Akdere and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highlights crucial aspects of the economy. The nexus linking characters to their economic environment is central in a new genre, the "economic novel", that puts forth economic choices and events to narrate social behavior, individual desires, and even non-economic decisions. For many authors, literary narration also offers a means to express critical viewpoints about economic development, for example in regards to its ecological or social ramifications. Conflicts of economic interest have social, political and moral causes and consequences. This book shows how economic and literary texts deal with similar subjects, and explores the ways in which economic ideas and metaphors shape literary texts, focusing on the analogies between economic theories and narrative structure in literature and drama. This volume also suggests that connecting literature and economics can help us find a common language to voice new, critical perspectives on crises and social change. Written by an impressive array of experts in their fields, Economics and Literature is an important read for those who study history of economic thought, economic theory and philosophy, as well as literary and critical theory.

Author : Paul Crosthwaite
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009027867
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics written by Paul Crosthwaite and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, money, finance, and the economy have emerged as central topics in literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics explains the innovative critical methods that scholars have developed to explore the economic concerns of texts ranging from the medieval period to the present. Across seventeen chapters by field-leading experts, the book highlights how, throughout literary history, economic matters have intersected with crucial topics including race, gender, sexuality, nation, empire, and the environment. It also explores how researchers in other disciplines are turning to literature and literary theory for insights into economic questions. Combining thorough historical coverage with attention to emerging issues and approaches, this Companion will appeal to literary scholars and to historians and social scientists interested in the literary and cultural dimensions of economics.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032178561
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics draws together over 45 critics and offers both an introduction and a springboard to this sometimes complex but highly relevant field.

Author : Robert J. Sampson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022683400X
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great American City written by Robert J. Sampson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his magisterial Great American City, Robert J. Sampson puts social scientific data behind an argument that we all feel and experience everyday: the neighborhood you live in has a big effect on your life and the city you live in. Not only does your neighborhood determine where your nearest hospital is, what kind of schools your children can attend, or how many police officers you might encounter (and how they respond to you), it affects how you feel, how you think about the world and your place in it. Like many sociologists before him, Sampson looks to Chicago to make his insightful interventions, based on extensive data collected across the city's diverse neighborhoods. This edition includes a new afterword by Sampson reflecting on changes in Chicago and the country that have occurred since the book was initially published. He notes the increase in gun violence, both among civilians and police killings of civilians, as well as steady or growing rates of segregation despite an increase in diversity. With these changes have come new research, much of it a continuation or elaboration of the work in Great American City. He updates readers on the status of the research initiative that serves as the basis of Great American City, the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), and summarizes how scholars have taken up his work. Many of these scholars have new tools at their disposal with the rise of big data; Sampson remarks on these changes in the field"--

Author : Michel Anteby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022609250X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing Morals written by Michel Anteby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world’s most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure faculty and students embrace proper business standards? Relying on his first-hand experience as a Harvard Business School faculty member, Michel Anteby takes readers inside HBS in order to draw vivid parallels between the socialization of faculty and of students. In an era when many organizations are focused on principles of responsibility, Harvard Business School has long tried to promote better business standards. Anteby’s rich account reveals the surprising role of silence and ambiguity in HBS’s process of codifying morals and business values. As Anteby describes, at HBS specifics are often left unspoken; for example, teaching notes given to faculty provide much guidance on how to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision-making on the part of those involved, with little overt guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model—which tolerates moral complexity—is perhaps one of the few that can adapt and endure over time. Manufacturing Morals is a perceptive must-read for anyone looking for insight into the moral decision-making of today’s business leaders and those influenced by and working for them.

Author : Harlan R. Day
Publisher : Council for Economic Educat
ISBN 13 : 9781561836307
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature written by Harlan R. Day and published by Council for Economic Educat. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary curriculum guide helps teachers introduce their students to economics using popular children's stories.

Author : Matt Spivey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793634483
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Reading Economics in Literature written by Matt Spivey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Austrian economic thought, “human action” guides all social and cultural experience. For both the real world and for fictional texts, this starting point can illuminate literature in new ways and offer valuable insight for literary critics who have previously been beholden to Marxism and other anti-capitalist perspectives. In Re-Reading Economics in Literature: A Capitalist Critical Perspective, Matt Spivey posits that in its relationship to literature, Austrian economic criticism entails a methodology that embraces the following: 1) an analytical reading that promotes both the individual artist as the creator of literature and the individual reader as the consumer of literature; 2) an understanding of the entrepreneurial quality of literature, that capitalism is a system that embraces creativity and evolution in the marketplace; and 3) a recognition of subjective value as fundamental to human choice and action, both in art and in the real world. In addition to the study of the individual, Spivey also incorporates the concepts of business cycles, government intervention, social dynamics, and technological evolution in his analysis. Scholars of literary studies and economics will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Michael Watts
Publisher : Intercollegiate Studies Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literary Book of Economics written by Michael Watts and published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an innovative approach to economic education and literacy. Building on empirical research showing that economic principles are best learned when integrated into other fields, the author uses seventy-eight selections from classic and contemporary fiction, drama, poetry, and prose to give flesh to more than twenty major economic concepts, issues, and themes.

Author : Martha Woodmansee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134750447
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Economic Criticism written by Martha Woodmansee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-09 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis. This collection brings together 27 essays by influential literary and cultural historians as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics.

Author : Robert J. Shiller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691212074
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Economics written by Robert J. Shiller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events—and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses Stories people tell—about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin—can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our peril—and how we can begin to take them seriously. Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that influence individual and collective economic behavior—what he calls "narrative economics"—may vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises and other major economic events. The result is nothing less than a new way to think about the economy, economic change, and economics. In a new preface, Shiller reflects on some of the challenges facing narrative economics, discusses the connection between disease epidemics and economic epidemics, and suggests why epidemiology may hold lessons for fighting economic contagions.