Economics and Literature

Çınla Akdere is Lecturer of History of Economic Thought at the Department of Economics, Middle East Technical Univeristy and researcher at the Labaratory Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Economiques (PHARE), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. Christine Baron is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Poitiers at Université de Poitiers, France.

1 Introduction and Overview



ÇINLA AKDERE AND CHRISTINE BARON AND BRUNA INGRAO



Part I



Passions and Interest: A Comparative Study of Economic Texts and Literary Masterpieces



2 Narratives of passions and finance in the 19th century



BRUNA INGRAO



3 The passions and the interests: the Sentimental Education of Gustave Flaubert



ALPHONSO SANCHEZ



4 Literature and Political Economy: Saint-Simon and Jean-Baptiste Say’s writings



GILLES JACOUD



5 Which Economic Agent Does Robinson Crusoe Represent?



CLAIRE PIGNOL



6 Political Economy and utilitarianism in Dickens' Hard Times



NATHALIE SIGOT AND ÇINLA AKDERE

PART II



Economic Ideas and Metaphors in Literature: An Interdisciplinary Approach



7 Concordances and dissidences between economy and literature



JEAN-JOSEPH GOUX



8 Economics and monetary imagination in André Gide's The Counterfeiters



ÇINLA AKDERE AND CHRISTINE BARON



9 ‘I Always Wanted to Have Earned My First Dollar but I Never Had’: Gertrude Stein and Money



LAURA E. B. KEY



10 Georges Perec’s Les Choses as the Privileged Domain of Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers



EYÜP ÖZVEREN

PART III



Facing change: reflections of economic development and crises in historical and literary texts



11 Transforming Economic and Social Relations: Modern Economy in Novels of Uşaklıgil



REYHAN TUTUMLU SERDAR AND ALI SERDAR



12 Mechanization Experience in Agriculture in Turkey: The Pomegranate on the Knoll



SELİN SEÇİL AKIN AND IŞIL ŞİRİN SELÇUK



13 An Intertextual Analysis of the Village Novels by Village Institute Graduates: Socio-economic Scenes of the Turkish Village between 1950 and 1980



ESRA ELİF NARTOK



14 Theatre in Crisis, Theatre of Crisis: Economics and Contemporary Dram