Economics and Art Theory

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