Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature: Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays

摘要

Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature is a collection of twenty-eight essays. Each examines an individual work of literature, an author, or a set of works from an economic or business perspective. Nine of the essays are penned by economics or business professors, twelve by other academics (mainly from the humanities), and seven by other professional intellectuals. The essays are presented in the approximate chronological order of the writings examined. They range from an essay on the work of the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes (487-386 B.C.) to one on American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) to one on contemporary African American playwright August Wilson's drama Radio Golf (2007). All the authors examined are European or American, and four of the essays focus on works by Ayn Rand.