A Coincidence of Wants: The Novel and Neoclassical Economics (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: the Interaction of Text and Society)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780815336488
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Neoclassical school of economics; Neoclassical school of economi; History and criticism; American - General; Economics - Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Economics - General; Literature
First sentence: Near the beginning of Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith proposes a provocative connection between economic and linguistic exchange.
Description: This interdisciplinary study examines four major British and American novels in view of key concepts from the mainstream tradition of neo-classical economics. Authors studied include Defoe, Mary Shelley, Melville and Theodore Dreiser.