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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Edward W. Younkins - Contributions by Andrew Bernstein; Walter Block; Susan Love Brown; Troy Camplin; Paul Cantor; Stephen Cox; Carmen Elena Dorobat; Mimi Reisel Gladstein; Carl Horner; Cynthia Hunter; Heather King; William Kline; Zennure Kösema Klappentext Fiction can be a powerful force to educate students and employees in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching approaches cannot. This anthology includes articles from a number of individuals from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. All of the contributors to Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have a larger claim upon people's literary consciousness. In addition, they all value the important role of literature in dealing with the complexities of a capitalist culture. This collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical, political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives that have been found over time in American society. The novels and plays analyzed include high literature, mid-range literature, popular literature, ancient epics, grand narratives, hero tales, masterpieces, ideological texts, science fiction, and more. There are a great many works of literature waiting to be read and studied by business and economically-minded individuals from many different viewpoints and fields of study. This volume provides a space to explore a wide range of fictional works and opinions about them. Zusammenfassung This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical! political! economic! cultural! social! and ethical perspectives that have been found in American society over time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Capitalism and Commerce in Novels and PlaysChapter 2 Epic and the Medium of Exchange Chapter 3 The Cost of War and the Profits of Peace in Aristophanes' ArcharniansChapter 4 A Time for Bonding: Commerce, Love, and Law in The Merchant of VeniceChapter 5 Human Action: Pursing Happiness Inside and Outside the Happy ValleyChapter 6 The Rime of the Neoclassical Economist: The Economist's Failure at Spreading the Passion of CapitalismChapter 7 Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: Industrial Energy Versus "The Idiocies Of Rural Life"Chapter 8 Where Have You Gone, Horatio Alger: A Long Gone Literary Hero and the Bourgeois VirtuesChapter 9 Crony Capitalism in The Gilded Age by Twain and Warner and its Relevance for Today Chapter 10 Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the PeopleChapter 11 William Dean Howells' Work Ethic in The Rise of Silas LaphamChapter 12 Capitalism Contra Ethics: William Dean Howells and the Moral Ambivalence of BusinessChapter 13 The Panic of '93: The Literary ResponseChapter 14 Heroism Redefined: Integrating Mind and Emotion in Calumet "K"Chapter 15 Women's Work: Edna Ferber, Emma McChesney, and the Portrait of the American BusinesswomanChapter 16 The Great Gatsby: A Commentary on the Wealthy in America of the 1920sChapter 17 Steinbeck's Perspectives on Capitalism: From The Grapes of Wrath to East of EdenChapter 18 Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and LibertarianismChapter 19 The Freedom Gradient in Ayn Rand's Novels Chapter 20 Identity, Professional Ethics and Substantive Style in The FountainheadChapter 21 Business in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged Chapter 22 Business as an Agent of Human Progress in Time Will Run Back, Methuselah's Children and The Transhumanist WagerChapter 23 Rabbit in the Showroom: Healthy, Wealthy, and No Place Left to RunChapter 24 Roger Rueff's Hospitality S...
