Capitalism and commerce in imaginative literature : perspectives on business from novels and plays / edited by Edward W. Younkins

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Capitalism and commerce in novels and plays / Edward W. Younkins -- Epic and the medium of exchange / Frederick Turner -- The cost of war and the profits of peace in Aristophanes' Acharnians / Troy Earl Camplin -- A time for bonding : commerce, love, and law in The Merchant of Venice / Allen Mendenhall -- Human action : pursuing happiness inside and outside the happy valley / Felix R. Livingston -- The rime of the neoclassical economist : the economist's failure at spreading the passion of capitalism / Derek K. Yonai -- Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South : industrial energy versus "the idiocies of rural life" / Paul A. Cantor -- Where have you gone, Horatio Alger : a long gone literary hero and the bourgeois virtues / Amy Willis -- Crony capitalism in The Gilded Age by Twain and Warner and its relevance for today / Michelle Albert Vachris -- Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People / Cynthia Hunter -- William Dean Howells' work ethic in The Rise of Silas Lapham / Zennure Köseman -- Capitalism contra ethics : William Dean Howells and the moral ambivalence of business / Michael Spindler -- The Panic of '93 : the literary response / Stephen Cox -- Heroism redefined : integrating mind and emotion in Calumet "K" / Virginia Murr -- Women's work : Edna Ferber, Emma McChesney, and the portrait of the American businesswoman / Sarah Skwire -- The Great Gatsby : a commentary on the wealthy in America of the 1920s / Gary Wolfram -- Steinbeck's perspectives on capitalism : from The Grapes of Wrath to East of Eden / Mimi Reisel Gladstein -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and libertarianism / Walter E. Block -- The freedom gradient in Ayn Rand's novels / Andrew Bernstein -- Identity, professional ethics, and substantive style in The Fountainhead / William Kline -- Business in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged / Edward W. Younkins -- Business as an agent of human progress in Time Will Run Back, Methuselah's Children, and The Transhumanist Wager / Gennady Stolyarov II -- Rabbit in the showroom : healthy, wealthy, and no place left to run / Carl S. Horner -- Roger Rueff's Hospitality Suite / Theodore N. Pauls -- Writing, money, markets, slavery, and unintended consequences at the beginning of history : Samuel R. Delany's return to Nevèrÿon / Jeff Riggenbach -- "We do not sow" : the economics and politics of A Song of Ice and Fire / Matthew McCaffrey and Carmen Elena Dorobăt -- Harry Potter and the invisible hand ; or, the virtue of business that is not serious / Heather King -- Race, rules, and real estate in August Wilson's Radio Golf / Susan Love Brown.