Economics and Art Theory

Stratos Myrogiannis is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. Constantinos Repapis is Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Foreword by Louise Braddock

Introduction

Stratos Myrogiannis and Constantinos Repapis

Part I

Economics, Literature and Representation

1 Economic thought and novels: What can we expect from the economy?

Claire Pignol

2 Men of Feeling: Sympathy, Imagination and the Value of Interdisciplinary Exchange

Foteini Lika

3 Adamantios Koraes and his tropics of discourse: Art, Science and Economics as therapeutic debts

Stratos Myrogiannis

Part II

Economics, Visual Arts and Abstractions

4 Economy, efficiency and the promenade deck: Thoughts on the history of architectural theory

Stravros Alifragkis

5 Resemblances and Disjunctions: Art, Mathematics and Economic Models

Ragupathy Venkatachalam

6 Fragments, Spolia and Economic Texts

Constantinos Repapis

Part III

Reflections on Economics, Society and Art

7 Art as Experience: The Aesthetic Dimensions of Meta-Economic Concerns in E. F. Schumacher’s Work

Sarath Jakka

8 "Man, the Prisoner of Logic": Towards an Optics of Equanimity

Michael Uebel

9 Economics, the Plastic Arts and Social Transformation

Sheila Dow

Index