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Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781138803015
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man: a Construction and Deconstruction
Item Height
234 mm
Author
Gillian Hewitson, Ulla Grapard
Publisher
Taylor & Francis LTD
Subject
Economics
Item Weight
386 g
Item Width
156 mm
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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In this book, economists and literary scholars examine the uses to which the Robinson Crusoe figure has been put by the economics discipline since the publication of Defoe's novel in 1719. The authors' critical readings of two centuries of texts that have made use of Robinson Crusoe undermine the pervasive belief of mainstream economics that Robinson Crusoe is a benign representative of economic agency, and that he, like other economic agents, can be understood independently of historical and cultural specificity. The book provides a detailed account of the appearance of Robinson Crusoe in the economics literature and in a plethora of modern economics texts, in which, for example, we find Crusoe is portrayed as a schizophrenic consumer/producer trying to maximize his personal well-being. Using poststructuralist, feminist, postcolonial, Marxist and literary criticism approaches, the authors of the fourteen chapters in this volume examine and critique some of the deepest, fundamental assumptions neoclassical economics hold about human nature; the political economy of colonization; international trade; and the pervasive gendered organization of social relations. The contributors to this volume can be seen as engaging in the emerging conversation between economists and literary scholars known as the New Economic Criticism. They offer unique perspectives on how the economy and economic thought can be read through different disciplinary lenses. Economists pay attention to rhetoric and metaphor deployed in economics, and literary scholars have found new areas to explore and understand by focusing on economic concepts and vocabulary encountered in literary texts.

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Taylor & Francis LTD
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9781138803015
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Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man: a Construction and Deconstruction
Publication Year
2014
Subject
Economics
Type
Textbook
Author
Gillian Hewitson, Ulla Grapard
Format
Paperback

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Item Height
234 mm
Item Weight
386 g
Item Width
156 mm

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Ulla Grapard, Gillian Hewitson
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United Kingdom
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Literature, Popular Philosophy

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