The New Economic Criticism

This collection brings together 27 essays by literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of postmodernist economics.
Economic criticism brings together economics and literary scholarship, demonstrating that literary and theoretical texts may be fruitfully examined for their economic form, content and contexts and that economic theories and texts may also be illuminated by scrutinizing their tropes, narrative devices and ideologies. This collection brings together 27 essays by influential literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. Contributors include: William Milberg, Deirdre McCloskey, Janet Sorenson, Jean-Joseph Goux, Marc Shell. The text should appeal to economists and literary theorists with an interest beyond the narrower confines of their subject.