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Fiction can be a powerful force to educate students and employees in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching approaches cannot. This anthology includes articles from a number of individuals from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. All of the contributors to Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have a larger claim upon people’s literary consciousness. In addition, they all value the important role of literature in dealing with the complexities of a capitalist culture. This collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical, political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives that have been found over time in American society. The novels and plays analyzed include high literature, mid-range literature, popular literature, ancient epics, grand narratives, hero tales, masterpieces, ideological texts, science fiction, and more. There are a great many works of literature waiting to be read and studied by business and economically-minded individuals from many different viewpoints and fields of study. This volume provides a space to explore a wide range of fictional works and opinions about them.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Capitalism and Commerce in Novels and Plays
Chapter 2 Epic and the Medium of Exchange
Chapter 3 The Cost of War and the Profits of Peace in Aristophanes' Archarnians
Chapter 4 A Time for Bonding: Commerce, Love, and Law in The Merchant of Venice
Chapter 5 Human Action: Pursing Happiness Inside and Outside the Happy Valley
Chapter 6 The Rime of the Neoclassical Economist: The Economist's Failure at Spreading the Passion of Capitalism
Chapter 7 Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: Industrial Energy Versus “The Idiocies Of Rural Life”
Chapter 8 Where Have You Gone, Horatio Alger: A Long Gone Literary Hero and the Bourgeois Virtues
Chapter 9 Crony Capitalism in The Gilded Age by Twain and Warner and its Relevance for Today
Chapter 10 Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People
Chapter 11 William Dean Howells' Work Ethic in The Rise of Silas Lapham
Chapter 12 Capitalism Contra Ethics: William Dean Howells and the Moral Ambivalence of Business
Chapter 13 The Panic of '93: The Literary Response
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Published 07 Mar 2016
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 478
ISBN 9781498519298
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 237 x 159 mm
Series Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Edward W. Younkins

Edward W. Younkins is Professor of Accountancy and…

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Walter Block

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Troy Camplin

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Paul Cantor

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Stephen Cox

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Carl Horner

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Cynthia Hunter

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Heather King

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William Kline

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Matt McCaffrey

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Virginia Murr

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Theodore Pauls

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Jeff Riggenbach

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Sarah Skwire

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Amy Willis

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Gary Wolfram

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Derek Yonai

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Edward W. Younkins

Edward W. Younkins is Professor of Accountancy and…

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