Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man: A Construction and Deconstruction

ISBN-13: 9781138803015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Ulla Grapard;Gillian Hewitson;¬Abar

Opis

Robinson Crusoe is a favourite subject of economists in that conditions on his island were the closest one could get to those of a laboratory. This book provides a productive engagement between economics and literature.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Ulla Grapard and Gillian Hewitson  Part 1: The Robinsonades: The Development of the Unencumbered Rational Economic Man  2. Reading and Rewriting: The Production of an Economic Robinson Crusoe Michael V. White  3. Robinson Crusoe and the Secret of Primitive Accumulation Stephen Hymer  4. Robinson Crusoe and the Economists William S. Kern  5. Robinson Crusoe and the Subject of Economics Antonio Callari  Part 2: The Quintessential Rational Economic Man: Feminist Interrogations  6. Robinson Crusoe: The Quintessential Economic Man? Ulla Grapard  7. Robinson Crusoe: The Paradigmatic ‘Rational Economic Man’ Gillian J. Hewitson  8. Family Troubles Brian Cooper  9. Economic Man Lost in Space Ulla Grapard and Gillian Hewitson  10. Robinson Crusoe and the Female Goddesses of Disorder Christine Owen  Part 3: The Quintessential Rational Economic Man: Postcolonial Interrogations  11. Towards a Friday Model of International Trade Melanie Samson  12. Mercantilism and Criminal Transportation Anna Neill  13. What Would an African Student make of Robinson Crusoe? Eiman Zein-Elabdin  14. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe: the ‘Amazement of Reading’ Nicole Bracker