ABSTRACT
Drawing on an interdisciplinary panel of contributors, this book presents a stimulating dialogue between economics and art theory and considers how this might aid our understanding of both areas of research.
The collection explores themes which both fields share, including rationality, abstraction and model building, the nature of social reality, representation and transformation. The contributions employ a broad range of methods to investigate the links between economics and art, and their coverage includes architecture, history of ideas, art theory, literature studies and beyond.
This innovative volume will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of economic theory, cultural economics, literary and art theory and it intends to be a starting point for new avenues of interdisciplinary research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|61 pages
Economics, literature and representation
chapter 3|18 pages
Adamantios Koraes and his tropics of discourse
part II|74 pages
Economics, visual arts and abstractions
chapter 4|24 pages
Economy, efficiency and the promenade deck
part III|57 pages
Reflections on economics, society and art