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Economics and Literature "A Novel Approach"

Economics and Literature "A Novel Approach"

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  • ISBN:9781032877631
  • Editorial: Routledge
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  • Nº Pág.:342
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Economics and fiction often pursue parallel objectives. Economists analyze human decisions and interactions in markets and other institutions. Fiction writers also provide keen insights into individual minds and motives, examining how their characters respond to conflict and tensions in varied situations. This book explores the insights to be gained from developing this parallel.

In each chapter, economists discuss classic or contemporary literary creations, exploring economic incentives that motivate the characters, the economic mechanisms that tie them together, and/or the economic context in which they live and develop. Exploring the synergy across economics and literature offers new understandings of themes, including capitalism and colonialism, marriage and markets, gender norms, inheritance and estates, and the political economy of poverty. The broad and deep range of literary works includes writers from Shakespeare and Goethe, through Chekov and Steinbeck, to recent Nobelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Han Kang. By offering new understandings of both economics and literature, readers will gain deeper insights into peoples thought processes, choices, and consequences.

This book will captivate readers in economics, social sciences, and the humanities and open their minds to the viewing of economic ideas and concepts through the prism of great works of literature.

Editors Introduction

Part I: Development and structural transformation of society and economy

1 A Bengali Novel on Economic Transition in History

Pranab Bardhan

2 Tradition and Modernity in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Achebes Things Fall Apart

Ernest Aryeetey and Jean-Philippe Platteau

3 The Art of Conquering Without Being Right: Agency, Education, and Learning by Doing in Cheikh Hamidou Kanes Ambiguous Adventure

Paul-Aarons Ngomo, Shourya Sen, and Leonard Wantchekon

4 On Capitalism and Colonialism: The Economic Imperatives Underlying Amitav Ghoshs Sea of Poppies

Mukesh Eswaran

5 The Lone Scream in the Dark: Cultural Change and Institutional Transformation in Modern China as seen through Lu Xuns Novel

Debin Ma

6 Zola's "Ladies Paradise" and the "Creative Destruction"

François Bourguignon

7 Women in a nervous breakdown: Intra-household bargaining and gender norms in South Korea

Bishnupriya Gupta

Part II: Market operation and dysfunction

8 Only the Housing Problem Has Corrupted Them

Sergei Guriev

9 Can Machines Replace Us?

Dilip Mookherjee

10 Contract-enforcement institutions in Gurnah's By the Sea

Mustapha Kamel Nabli

11 Marriage and Markets: Lessons from Pride and Prejudice

Carmen Matutes

Part III: Limits of the Homo Economicus model

12 The Esterházy Myth: How Economics and Literature Correct Mistakes

Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi

13 Chekhov: The Nostalgia for Missed Opportunities

Jean-Philippe Platteau

14 The Financial Expert of Malgudi

Avinash Dixit

15 Estates, Inheritance and Gifts: Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth

Luiz De Mello

16 The Inheritance Mess: Père Goriot and King Lear Offer Us a Mirror

Marianne David and Pierre Pestieau

17 The Master, the Helicopter, and Margarita

Luc Leruth and Danielle Meuwly

18 Money in the Faustian pact

Alfred Steinherr

Part IV: Rent-seeking, corruption and bad political governance

19 How Steinbeck Speaks to Institutions in Economics

Stuti Khemani

20 The Economics of Innocence: Imbolo Mbues 'How Beautiful We Were'

Celestin Monga

21 Frank Herberts Dune

Mark Koyama

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