Economics is often used in literary studies, but rarely free market economics. Austrian economics, with its emphasis on subjective value (Menger), human action (Mises), spontaneous order and knowledge (Hayek), and entrepreneurship (Kirzner), seems a particularly fruitful source of ideas for literary studies.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Cantor on Greenblatt and Shakespeare
Paul Cantor's review of Shakespeare's Freedom, Stephen Greenblatt's latest book, appears in this month's issue of the The American Conservative. Greenblatt's book will mean that my forthcoming article on "Shakespeare's Place in Law and Literature" will be dated upon publication, but that's okay, because the trend of liberty is more important to me (and society) than the timeliness of my research.
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