Literature and Liberty: Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism

摘要

In the final paragraph of his introduction to Literature and Liberty, Allen Mendenhall clearly outlines the project of his book: "This book shows libertarians that the humanities in general and literature in particular can serve as useful, illuminating sources for studying economics and human action" (p. 22). I agree with Mendenhall that such a project is a useful and necessary one with enormous potential gains from trade for both economics and literary studies. And, on the whole, I like Literature and Liberty. But although the book does some very interesting things, it does not seem to me to accomplish what its author says he set out to do.