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

• Main Author: Comyn, Sarah (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature-History and criticism.; Economic policy.; Literary Theory.; Literary History.; Economic Policy.

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...

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.