Economics and Literature : A Novel Approach (Hardcover)

Editors’ Introduction ?Part I: Development and structural transformation of society and economy 1 ??????????? A Bengali Novel on Economic Transition in History 2 ??????? Tradition and Modernity in Subsaharan Africa: Insights from Achebe’s Things Fall Apart 3 ???? The Art of Conquering Without Being Right: Agency, Education, and Learning by Doing in Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s “Ambiguous Adventure”. 4 ???????? On Capitalism and Colonialism: The Economic Imperatives Underlying Amitav Ghosh’s “Sea of Poppies” 5 ?? The Lone Scream in the Dark: Cultural Change and Institutional Transformation in Modern China as seen through Lu Xun’s Novel ?6 ?????????????? Zola's Ladies’ Paradise and Creative Destruction 7???????????? Women in a nervous breakdown: Intra household bargaining and gender norms in South Korea Part II: Market operation and dysfunction8 ?????? Only the Housing Problem Has Corrupted Them 9 ??????????? Can Machines Replace Us? 10 ??????????? Abdulrazak Gurnah and Contract-Enforcement Institutions in His Novel By the Sea 11 ?????????? Marriage and Markets: Lessons from Pride and Prejudice Part III: Limits of the Homo Economicus model 12???????????? The Esterhazy Myth: How Economics and Literature Correct Mistakes 13???? The Nostalgia for Missed Opportunities ?14?????????????? The Financial Expert of Malgudi 15?????????? Estates, Inheritance and Gifts: Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth 16?? The Inheritance Mess: Pere Goriot and King Lear Offer Us a Mirror 17?????????? The Master, the Helicopter, and Margarita 18????? Money in the Faustian pact Part IV: Rent-seeking, corruption and bad political governance 19????????????? How Steinbeck Speaks to Institutions in Economics 20??????? The Economics of Innocence: Imbolo Mbue’s “How Beautiful We Were” ?21??? Frank Herbert’s Dune