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.
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One wonders, ineluctably, if The Freeman is now publishing poetry or verse, or if its editors even recognize any such distinction.
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One cannot say for certain without enough examples to make a judgment, but I must say that with Frederick Turner's Tirzah they are off to a good start, as that is certainly poetry.
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