The Political Economy of Great Works of Literature
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“The Political Economy of Great Works of Literature”: Symposium
The Independent Review · Winter 2020/21
What can great writers such as Aristophanes, Tolstoy, Austen, and Conrad offer readers in today's topsy-turvy world? A lot! Their classic novels, plays, and short stories engross the reader while sparking the contemplation of profound truths and enduring moral questions about how individuals should live their lives. The articles in our Winter 2020/21 Symposium grapple with what great literature can tell us about the political and economic arrangements that make for a free and flourishing society.

This issue also features Paul Craig Roberts’s “What Is Supply-Side Economics? Four Decades Later Wikipedia and Academic Economists Still Don’t Know” as well as twelve reviews of important new books including ten web-exclusive reviews.

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Co-Editors:
Christopher J. Coyne
Michael C. Munger
Robert M. Whaples

Founding Editor:
Robert Higgs

Published Quarterly
Peer Reviewed
160 Pages per Issue
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Winter 2020/21 ([link removed]) Issue Contents
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Articles
Introduction: The Political Economy of Great Works of Literature ([link removed]) *
By Robert M. Whaples
Is Nothing Sacred?: Aristophanes’s The Clouds and Moral Taboos ([link removed])
By William P. Baumgarth, Sr.
Crusoe and the Economists: An Accounting ([link removed])
By Steven G. Horwitz, Sarah Skwire
Human Nature and Civil Society in Jane Austen ([link removed])
By Cecil E. Bohanon, Michelle Albert Vachris
A Lesson in Humility, a Lesson for Our Times: Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed ([link removed]) *
By Alberto Mingardi
Liberty Befits All: Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin ([link removed])
By Robert E. Wright
Economics Meets War and Peace: Tolstoy’s Implicit Social Theory ([link removed])
By Robert E. Wright
The Political Economy of Joseph Conrad ([link removed])
By Robert M. Whaples
The Autopoietic World of Franz Kafka ([link removed])
By Antony W. Dnes
Philanthropic Exchange in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man ([link removed])
By Cecil E. Bohanon, Michelle Albert Vachris
The Political Economy of Flannery O’Connor ([link removed])
By Scott A. Beaulier, Anemone Beaulier
Reflections
What Is Supply-Side Economics? Four Decades Later Wikipedia and Academic Economists Still Don’t Know ([link removed])
By Paul Craig Roberts
Twelve Book Reviews Including...
Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America ([link removed]) *
By Noah Rothman
Reviewed by Anthony J. Gill
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Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All ([link removed]) *
By Michael Shellenberger
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
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Same Players, Different Game: An Examination of the Commercial College Athletics Industry ([link removed]) *
By John C. Barnes
Reviewed by William L. Anderson
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Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook ([link removed]) *
By Mark Bray
Reviewed by J. K. Miles
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