The literary book of economics: including readings from literature and drama on economic concepts, issues, and themes

Introduction: The Inevitable but Uneasy Relationship between Economics and Literature and Drama

Comus / John Milton

"The Road Not Taken" / Robert Frost

"The Grumbling Hive" / Bernard Mandeville

Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte

Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand

Book of Merlyn / T.H. White

"The Parable of the Water Tank" / Edward Bellamy

Doctor Faustus / Thomas Mann

"Mending Wall" / Robert Frost

Perfect Storm / Sebastian Junger

Ride With Me, Mariah Montana / Ivan Doig

God's Little Acre / Erskine Caldwell

Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck

Winesburg, Ohio / Sherwood Anderson

East of Eden / John Steinbeck

Spoon River Anthology / Edgar Lee Masters

Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser

Travels with Charley / John Steinbeck

Merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare

Epistle III / Alexander Pope

Epistle IV / Alexander Pope

"Prince of Peace" / John Dos Passos

"Tin Lizzie" / John Dos Passos

Catch-22 / Joseph Heller

Banker / Dick Francis

All My Sons / Arthur Miller

Songs of a Savoyard / W.S. Gilbert

Octopus / Frank Norris

Arcadia / Tom Stoppard

Journals / Ralph Waldo Emerson

East of Eden / John Steinbeck

Poor-Devil Author / Washington Irving

Dancing at the Rascal Fair / Ivan Doig

Perfect Storm / Sebastian Junger

Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan

Pearl / John Steinbeck

Robber Bride / Margaret Atwood

Into Thin Air / Jon Krakauer

Imitations of Horace / Alexander Pope

Travels with Charley / John Steinbeck

Gargantua and Pantagruel / Francois Rabelais

Hard Times / Charles Dicknes

Into Thin Air / Jon Krakauer

God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy

Merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare

Jungle / Upton Sinclair

Cancer Ward / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Les Miserables / Victor Hugo

Democracy / Henry Adams

Good As Gold / Joseph Heller

Autobiography / Benjamin Franklin

Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Something For Everyone" / David Sedaris

Into Thin Air / Jon Krakauer

Perfect Storm / Sebastian Junger

Road to Wigan Pier / George Orwell

"Song to the Men of England" / Percy Bysshe Shelley

In Dubious Battle / John Steinbeck

God's Little Acre / Erskine Caldwell

God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy

Travels with Charley / John Steinbeck

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain

Dancing at the Rascal Fair / Ivan Doig

Troilus and Cressida / William Shakespeare

Journals / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Road to Wigan Pier / George Orwell

Octopus / Frank Norris

Moveable Feast / Ernest Hemingway

Tobacco Road / Erskine Caldwell

"Harrison Bergeron" / Kurt Vonnegut

Cold Mountain / Charles Frazier

Black Obelisk / Erich Maria Remarque

Faust / Johan Goethe

"Money" / Gertrude Stein

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Mark Twain

Bucking the Sun / Ivan Doig

Prisoner of Second Avenue / Neil Simon

"Petition of the Manufacturers of Candles" / Frederic Bastiat

"A Modest Proposal" / Jonathan Swift

"A Hero's Death" / Par Lagerkvist

Epilogue: Mutual Gains from Exchange between Economics and Literature and Drama, or Mutual Neglect through Academic Protectionism?

App. A. How Economists Have Used Literature and Drama

App. B. How Literary Critics and Historians Have Used Economics.