The Insatiability of Human Wants
Subtitle: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780226278544
Subjects: Capitalist or free market economies; Literary studies: general; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Aesthetics; Culture; Economic aspects; Economic history; Literature
First sentence: When Fraser wrote his chapter on capital in Economic Thought and Language (1937), he apologized for its "monstrous length . . . it got completely out of hand," whether ironically with reference to capitalist growth itself or parodically in relation to Marx's magnum opus it is not clear.