Economics and Semiotics

Introduction Economics and Semiotics: Charting a relationship Part I: Semiotic views and the economy 1. The economy of reading: art as cultural investment 2. The semiotics of taste: Economies of pleasure and consumption in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, Barthes and Roidis 3. Economics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis as meaning-making: the case for an interpretive science of economics. 4. The aura of the original and serial reproduction: The cases of painting, photography and the digital Part II: Narratives and the role of language in economic discourse 5. Delving into the effectiveness and limits of economic rhetoric in 17th-century Spain: On the use and misuse of tropes in monetary treatises (1600-1642) 6. The role of language in Keynes' General Theory and Sraffa's Production of Commodities 7. "The received value of names imposed for signification of things was changed into arbitrary". Troikaspeak in the age of memoranda. The case of Greece 8. Narratives, sophists, irrationalism and confusion Part III: Interpretation and meaning in economic theory 9. The sign in the current of history: a semiotics history of comparative advantage 10. Is God a mathematical economist? Mathematical economics, scientific experience and Macro General Equilibrium Models from the Perspective of the Semiotic Peirce Conjecture 11. The semiotic basis of financial valuation: A detour through the history of financial ideas 12. Hermeneutics of Interdependence Index