{"product_id":"capitalism-and-commerce-in-imaginative-literature-9781498519298","title":"Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical, political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives that have been found in American society over time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this volume, Edward W. Younkins brings together a remarkably talented and diverse group of scholars who provide us with provocative essays that break down the walls between economics and literary criticism, history, and imagination. The result is a collection that challenges conventional perspectives on classic literature and historical interpretation. -- Chris Matthew Sciabarra, New York University\u003cbr\u003eCongratulations to Ed Younkins for an imaginative work on a most important topic. Students are going to love it, and learn from it. -- Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Mises Institute\u003cbr\u003eCapitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature is an excellent collection of essays that should prove most useful in any management or business ethics course. -- Douglas B. Rasmussen, St. Johns University\u003cbr\u003e'The business of America is business,’ said Calvin Coolidge. So it is entirely fitting that scholars of various disciplines should look at the portrayal of business and economic activity in literature, American and otherwise. These essays may even make you want to read—or reread—Elizabeth Gaskell, Willa Cather, or August Wilson. -- David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute\u003cbr\u003eThis may be the definitive anthology on literature and business. It offers a truly remarkable range of perspectives and insights. -- Joseph L. Badaracco, Harvard Business School\u003cbr\u003eWe have too long spoken of the opposition between business and literature, but in this remarkable collection that distorted perception is not only corrected, but overridden. With impressive diversity of both topics and authors, this collection of essays highlights the synergies between commerce and culture. I have little doubt that this volume will also inspire future artistic endeavors with business as the central subject. -- Douglas Den Uyl, Vice President of Educational Programs, Liberty Fund\u003cbr\u003eMarcel Proust famously said, “The writer’s work is…an optical instrument… to enable [the reader] to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says in the proof of its veracity.” I can’t think of more powerful application of this insight than in the new volume edited by Ed Younkins, Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature. In 28 extraordinarily diverse essays, the authors explore alternative worlds that might have been and could never be, as a means of exploring worlds readers couldn’t possibly have experienced. The essays work as literature on their own, but their real importance is as thought experiments: What does it mean to be human, and what does it mean to engage in commerce. A tour de force for economist and literature scholar alike. -- Michael C. Munger, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Capitalism and Commerce in Novels and Plays Chapter 2 Epic and the Medium of Exchange  Chapter 3 The Cost of War and the Profits of Peace in Aristophanes’ Archarnians Chapter 4 A Time for Bonding: Commerce, Love, and Law in The Merchant of Venice Chapter 5 Human Action: Pursing Happiness Inside and Outside the Happy Valley Chapter 6 The Rime of the Neoclassical Economist: The Economist’s Failure at Spreading the Passion of Capitalism Chapter 7 Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South: Industrial Energy Versus “The Idiocies Of Rural Life” Chapter 8 Where Have You Gone, Horatio Alger: A Long Gone Literary Hero and the Bourgeois Virtues Chapter 9 Crony Capitalism in The Gilded Age by Twain and Warner and its Relevance for Today  Chapter 10 Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People Chapter 11 William Dean Howells’ Work Ethic in The Rise of Silas Lapham Chapter 12 Capitalism Contra Ethics: William Dean Howells and the Moral Ambivalence of Business Chapter 13 The Panic of ’93: The Literary Response Chapter 14 Heroism Redefined: Integrating Mind and Emotion in Calumet “K” Chapter 15 Women’s Work: Edna Ferber, Emma McChesney, and the Portrait of the American Businesswoman Chapter 16 The Great Gatsby: A Commentary on the Wealthy in America of the 1920s Chapter 17 Steinbeck’s Perspectives on Capitalism: From The Grapes of Wrath to East of Eden Chapter 18 Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Libertarianism Chapter 19 The Freedom Gradient in Ayn Rand’s Novels  Chapter 20 Identity, Professional Ethics and Substantive Style in The Fountainhead Chapter 21 Business in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged  Chapter 22 Business as an Agent of Human Progress in Time Will Run Back, Methuselah’s Children and The Transhumanist Wager Chapter 23 Rabbit in the Showroom: Healthy, Wealthy, and No Place Left to Run Chapter 24 Roger Rueff’s Hospitality Suite  Chapter 25 Writing, Money, Markets, Slavery \u0026amp; Unintended Consequences at the Beginning of History: Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon Chapter 26 “We Do Not Sow”: The Economics and Politics of A Song of Ice and Fire Chapter 27 Harry Potter and the Invisible Hand; or, the Virtue of Business that is Not Serious Chapter 28 Race, Rules, and Real Estate in August Wilson’s Radio Golf","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040669598039,"sku":"9781498519298","price":112.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498519298.jpg?v=1750947455","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/capitalism-and-commerce-in-imaginative-literature-9781498519298","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}