Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of ‘Homo Economicus’ provides a transhistorical account of homo economicus (economic man), demonstrating this figure’s significance to economic theory and the Anglo-American novel over a 250-year period.
Sarah Comyn is Postdoctoral Fellow on the ERC-funded project SouthHem at University College Dublin, Ireland.
1. Introduction.- 2. Chapter Two: The Contested Birth of Homo Economicus.- 3. Chapter Three: The Speculative World of Sandition.- 4. Chapter Four: A Marginal Life.- 5. Chapter Five: The Compulsion to Consume.- 6. Chapter Six: The Neoliberal Ideologue.- 7. Chapter Seven: The Asymmetric Prostate.- 8. Coda.