Political Economy and the Novel A Literary History of "Homo Economicus" /

Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of 'Homo Economicus' provides a transhistorical account of homo economicus (economic man), demonstrating this figure's significance to economic theory and the Anglo-American novel over a 250-year period. Beginning with Adam Smith...

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Main Author: Comyn, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
Subjects:
Literature-Philosophy.
Literature-History and criticism.
Economic policy.
ISBN:9783319943251
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Chapter Two: The Contested Birth of Homo Economicus
  • 3. Chapter Three: The Speculative World of Sandition
  • 4. Chapter Four: A Marginal Life
  • 5. Chapter Five: The Compulsion to Consume
  • 6. Chapter Six: The Neoliberal Ideologue
  • 7. Chapter Seven: The Asymmetric Prostate
  • 8. Coda.

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