Power, Prose, and Purse

Introduction Part One. Swindlers or Entrepreneurs? Susanna Blumenthal, Counterfeiting Confidence: The Problem of Trust in the Age of Contract Nicola Lacey, Gamblers and Gentlefolk: Money, Law and Status in Trollope's England Saul Levmore, Regulating Greed: Biographical Markers in Dos Passos' The Big Money Martha C. Nussbaum, The Morning and the Evening Star: Religion, Money, and Love in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Elmer Gantry Justin Driver, Jay Gatsby, Justice Douglas, and the Significance of Class in American Society Part Two. Preferences and Capitalists Jonathan S. Masur & Seebany Data-Barua, Wealth and Warfare in the Novels of Jane Austen Alison LaCroix, Commerce, Law, and Revolution in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bront Robin West, Bartleby's Consensual Dysphoria Martha C. Nussbaum, Love from the Point of View of the Universe: Walt Whitman and the Utilitarian Imagination Douglas G. Baird, Money and Art in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward Laura Weinrib, The Second New Deal and the Fourth Courtroom Wall: Law, Labor, and Liberty in The Cradle Will Rock Carol M. Rose, Raisin, Race, and the Real Estate Revolution of the Early 20 Part Three. Optimism and Pessimism Richard H. McAdams, The Grapes of Wrath, Economics, and Luck Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Irish (and English and American) Poets, Learn Your Trade: Law and Economics in Poetry