Power, Prose, and Purse

Alison LaCroix is Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and an Associate Member of the Department of History at the University of Chicago. Saul Levmore is William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School and the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago

Introduction

Part One. Swindlers or Entrepreneurs?
Susanna Blumenthal, Counterfeiting Confidence: The Problem of Trust in the Age of Contract
Nicola Lacey, Gamblers and Gentlefolk: Money, Law and Status in Trollope's England
Saul Levmore, Regulating Greed: Biographical Markers in Dos Passos' The Big Money
Martha C. Nussbaum, The Morning and the Evening Star: Religion, Money, and Love in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Elmer Gantry
Justin Driver, Jay Gatsby, Justice Douglas, and the Significance of Class in American Society

Part Two. Preferences and Capitalists
Jonathan S. Masur & Seebany Data-Barua, Wealth and Warfare in the Novels of Jane Austen
Alison LaCroix, Commerce, Law, and Revolution in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bront
Robin West, Bartleby's Consensual Dysphoria
Martha C. Nussbaum, Love from the Point of View of the Universe: Walt Whitman and the Utilitarian Imagination
Douglas G. Baird, Money and Art in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward
Laura Weinrib, The Second New Deal and the Fourth Courtroom Wall: Law, Labor, and Liberty in The Cradle Will Rock
Carol M. Rose, Raisin, Race, and the Real Estate Revolution of the Early 20th Century

Part Three. Optimism and Pessimism
Richard H. McAdams, The Grapes of Wrath, Economics, and Luck
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Irish (and English and American) Poets, Learn Your Trade: Law and Economics in Poetry