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The Culture of Money
It is widely known that – at least in current societies - culture depends on money. Less attention has been given to the contrary fact: money also depends on culture. In its very foundation - negotiations, values, exchanges, debts and obligations, contracts and laws – money's functioning is tied to cultural practices, institutions, identities, and meanings. This interdisciplinary anthology scrutinizes the two-way connection between culture and money, and its implications for economic theory. In this book a wide range of established experts and newcomers from a range of disciplines investigate current economic issues from the perspective of their social and cultural embeddedness, their cu...
Thinking about Tears
A crucial period for the birth of the modern subject, France's 'long eighteenth century' (approximately 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of weeping. Precisely becausetears are not a simple biological fact but rather hang suspended between natural immediacy, on one side, and cultural artifice, on the other, the analysis of crying came to represent an exemplary testing ground for investigations into the enigmatic relations binding the realm of physiology to thatof psychology. Thinking About Tears explores how the link between tears and sensibility in France's long eighteen...
Selling the Story
A literary scholar and investment banker applies economic criticism to canonical novels, dramatically changing the way we read these classics and proposing a new model for how economics can inform literary analysis. Every writer is a player in the marketplace for literature. Jonathan Paine locates the economics ingrained within the stories themselves, revealing how a text provides a record of its author’s attempt to sell the story to his or her readers. An unusual literary scholar with a background in finance, Paine mines stories for evidence of the conditions of their production. Through his wholly original reading, Balzac’s The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans becomes a secret diar...
America Through European Eyes
"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.
The Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America
These essays explore important themes and contemporary legacies of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic work Democracy in America.
Tocqueville on America After 1840
Tocqueville on America after 1840 provides access to Tocqueville's views on American politics from 1840 to 1859, revealing his shift in thinking and growing disenchantment with America.
Littérature et économie. Relire la maison nucingen de balzac
I contributi riuniti in questo volume propongono una riflessione sull’opera letteraria attraverso una pluralità di approcci e di prospettive. Studiosi di letteratura, economisti e giuristi confrontano le proprie competenze per leggere uno dei testi più ermetici e attuali di Balzac: La Maison Nucingen (1837). Attraverso il racconto della fortuna della banca Nucingen, il lettore scopre le trasformazioni della finanza che la rivoluzione industriale ha portato in Francia e in Europa. L’esplorazione del ruolo crescente della Borsa e della speculazione nella società moderna è legata all’invenzione di una nuova forma di narrazione e ad una ridefinizione dell’immaginazione romanzesca. L’autore rende il volto del banchiere inafferrabile per trasmettere l’astrazione della modernità economica. Moltiplica i discorsi narrativi per mettere in scena la circolazione del capitale.
