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Shakespeare’s Inner Economist
Sarah Skwire looks at the implicit economics of Shakespeare's plays, in which self-interested politicians vie with one other for advantage.
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Romanticizing Politics
Ross Emmett looks at the origins of our surprisingly recent rose-colored view of politics.
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Adam Smith’s Public Choice Economics
Maria Pia Paganelli looks at the founder of modern economics - and the pursuit of politics without romance.
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Mark Twain, Meet Gordon Tullock
Michelle Vachris argues that economics and literature have a lot to learn from one another.
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Novelists Remembered What Economists Forgot
Maria Pia Paganelli contrasts the simplified model of homo economicus and the often complex inner lives of fictional characters.
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The Victorian Economic Sensibility
Sarah Skwire looks at the depiction of economic themes in Charles Dickens, the author economists love to hate.
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Political Skepticism’s Long History
Michelle Vachris looks at the history of literary depictions of the venal politician.