Power, Prose, and Purse: Law, Literature, and Economic Transformations
Alison LaCroix, Saul Levmore, and Martha C. Nussbaum
Abstract
Power, Prose, and Purse is an edited collection of essays that draw connections between literature, economics, and law. The essays discuss literary works that explore the time period between the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression and analyze the insights that novelists can offer to law and economics, while noting the tensions among these paradigms. Literature often addresses specific questions connected with a particular context, problem, or character. In contrast, both law and economics aim to focus on identifying general typologies and rules. Money and literature are both useful ... More
Power, Prose, and Purse is an edited collection of essays that draw connections between literature, economics, and law. The essays discuss literary works that explore the time period between the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression and analyze the insights that novelists can offer to law and economics, while noting the tensions among these paradigms. Literature often addresses specific questions connected with a particular context, problem, or character. In contrast, both law and economics aim to focus on identifying general typologies and rules. Money and literature are both useful interpretive tools for understanding the law, and all three allow for greater understanding of human society—especially when considered in a collaborative rather than competitive way. Approaching these issues from a variety of methodological perspectives, including philosophy, history, and literary theory, the essays in this volume explore the important tensions between literature, on the one hand, and law and money, on the other.
Keywords:
essays,
law,
literature,
economics,
money,
interdisciplinary,
Industrial Revolution,
Great Depression
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190873455 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2019 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190873455.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Alison LaCroix, editor
Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and an Associate Member of the Department of History, University of Chicago
Saul Levmore, editor
William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor Law, University of Chicago
Martha C. Nussbaum, editor
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Law School and the Philosophy Department, University of Chicago
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