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Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Jacques-Henri Coste

Vincent Dussol

The Fictions of American Capitalism

Working Fictions and the Economic Novel

&lt;p&gt;Chapter 1:&amp;nbsp;The Fictions of American Capitalism: An Introduction,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Jacques-Henri and Vincent Dussol&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 2: From Economics as Fiction to Fiction-Led Capitalism, &lt;i&gt;Robert Boyer&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 3: Capitalism: Anticipating the Future Present, &lt;i&gt;Jens Beckert&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 4: The Cultural Fix: Capital, Genre, and the Times of American Studies, &lt;i&gt;Stephen Shapiro&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 5: “Tell me a Story”: How American Capitalism Reinvents Itself through Storytelling, &lt;i&gt;Marie-Christine Pauwels&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 6: The Boundless Economy: An Enduring Performative American Fiction?, &lt;i&gt;Pierre Arnaud&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 7:&amp;nbsp;American Entrepreneurship as Action Translated into Heuristic Discourse, &lt;i&gt;Jacques-Henri Coste&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 8: The Woman Proprietor in Elizabeth Stuart Phelp’s &lt;i&gt;The Silent Partner&lt;/i&gt;: Social Reform Novel as Paradigm of John Stuart Mill’s Liberal Political Economy, &lt;i&gt;Julia McLeod&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 9: William Dean Howells and the Economic Novel: Heteronomy and Autonomy, &lt;i&gt;Giullame Tanguy&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 10: The Theory of Monopoly and the Crafting of the Modern Epic: Frank Norris’s &lt;i&gt;The Octopus&lt;/i&gt; as Populist Drama?, &lt;i&gt;Evelyne Payen-Varieras&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 11:&amp;nbsp;Naturalism and Economic Calculability, &lt;i&gt;Jason Douglas&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 12: Living on Paper: Disarticulating a Racialized Capitalism in Works by Richard Wright and Ann Petry, &lt;i&gt;William Dow&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 13: Ayn Rand’s &lt;i&gt;Atlas Shrugged&lt;/i&gt;: “Laissez-Faire” Fiction, &lt;i&gt;Vincent Dussol&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 14: “Building the clutter, widening the vacancy”: Capitalism and Baroque in William Gaddis’s &lt;i&gt;JR&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Jean-Louis Brunel&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 15: Money Narratives in Postmodern Novels by Paul Auster and Martin Amis, &lt;i&gt;Sina Vatanpour&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 15: Revisiting Business History through Capitalist Fiction: The Glove-Making Business in Philip Roth’s &lt;i&gt;American Pastoral&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Jacques-Henri Coste&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 16: Thomas Pynchon’s &lt;i&gt;Dumps&lt;/i&gt;: Subversive Developments, &lt;i&gt;Benedicte Chorier-Fryd&lt;/i&gt;.- Chapter 18: Economic Humanities: Literature, Culture and Capitalism, Peter Knight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Living Signs of Law

Legal Dimensions of Political Literature

Artistic Freedom and Author Responsibility

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we'll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the growing paunch. She doesn't know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn't? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it's just enough that he sees her when no one else does.&nbsp; Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.

A Novel

Half His Age

Markets are unpredictable, but your strategy doesn’t have to be. This revised and expanded edition of Global Shocks equips individual investors with a practical framework for navigating financial crises and market shocks. Written from a practitioner’s perspective, it offers clear guidance and real-world insights to help you protect and grow your portfolio when volatility strikes.
Through 12 compelling case studies—from the collapse of Bretton Woods to the COVID pandemic and recent trade tensions—you’ll learn how crises unfold, how policymakers respond, and how investors can position for resilience and opportunity. Explore patterns in interest and exchange rates, understand the difference between currency crises and asset bubbles, and discover strategies to limit losses and capitalize on recovery.
Timely lessons. Actionable strategies. A must-read for anyone investing in uncertain times.

Markets are unpredictable, but your strategy doesn’t have to be. This revised and expanded edition of 
 Global Shocks
 equips individual investors with a practical framework for navigating financial crises and market shocks. Written from a practitioner’s perspective, it offers clear guidance and real-world insights to help you protect and grow your portfolio when volatility strikes.
 Through 12 compelling case studies—from the collapse of Bretton Woods to the COVID pandemic and recent trade tensions—you’ll learn how crises unfold, how policymakers respond, and how investors can position for resilience and opportunity. Explore patterns in interest and exchange rates, understand the difference between currency crises and asset bubbles, and discover strategies to limit losses and capitalize on recovery.Timely lessons. Actionable strategies. A must-read for anyone investing in uncertain times.

An Investment Guide for Turbulent Markets

Global Shocks

The international bestselling author of A Whole Life, The Tobacconist and The Cafe with No Name returns with a moving portrait of an artist at the end of his life, aboard a ship for his final journey from New York to Europe.

The Last Movement

In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations who have surrendered to it. “Brimming with startling details, this is also serious financial history with a conclusion ripe for our unsettled times: Rulers and borders come and go, but the dollar has outlasted our illusions of sovereignty and control.”—Evan Osnos, author of The Haves and Have-Yachts America’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international contracts in dollars, and in 2023, central banks around the world held nearly $6.7 trillion in dollar reserves, three times any other currency. Today, the United States’ global hegemony rests largely on its ability to produce unlimited treasury bonds that are sold around the world, dollars that supported America’s explosive growth in the twentieth century and funded its massive wars in the twenty-first. American power and the American dollar have become synonymous. Yet in this brilliant 500-year history, Brendan Greeley argues that America’s sovereignty over the dollar is an illusion—that the dollar had already empowered and destroyed nations long before it washed up on colonial shores, and that no country or king has or can ever truly control it. Reaching back to the dollar’s birth as the taler in the 15th-century silver mines of St. Joachimsthal, Greeley reveals how the dollar first thrived as a commodity for merchants and bankers—a big, silver coin that was trusted around the world, even as the miners who pulled it from the ground had trouble getting paid in that same silver. Greeley traces a captivatingly complex path across time and place, from the industrial collapse at the heart of Spain’s 17th-century silver empire, to the birth of American paper dollars in colonial Maryland, 19th-century New Orleans bank failures, and the small town of Hawarden, Iowa, which created its own dollars during the Great Depression. At every surprising turn, Greeley upends assumptions about global currencies and draws out the centuries-old tension between how dollars are manufactured and whom they actually serve. Singular in its breadth, The Almighty Dollar dismantles the myth that America created or has ever truly controlled the dollar. Through meticulous research and vividly rendered stories of merchants, monarchs, and everyday people both past and present, Greeley shows how the dollar became America’s greatest export, spawning a vast financial industry that enriches the wealthy, even as the rest of the country’s industries suffer.

In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations who have surrendered to it. “Brimming with startling details, this is also serious financial history with a conclusion ripe for our unsettled times: Rulers and borders come and go, but the dollar has outlasted our illusions of sovereignty and control.”—Evan Osnos, author of The Haves and Have-Yachts America’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international contracts in dollars, and in 2023, central banks around the world held nearly $6.7 trillion in dollar reserves, three times any other currency. Today, the United States’ global hegemony rests largely on its ability to produce unlimited treasury bonds that are sold around the world, dollars that supported America’s explosive growth in the twentieth century and funded its massive wars in the twenty-first. American power and the American dollar have become synonymous. Yet in this brilliant 500-year history, Brendan Greeley argues that America’s sovereignty over the dollar is an illusion—that the dollar had already empowered and destroyed nations long before it washed up on colonial shores, and that no country or king has or can ever truly control it. Reaching back to the dollar’s birth as the taler in the 15th-century silver mines of St. Joachimsthal, Greeley reveals how the dollar first thrived as a commodity for merchants and bankers—a big, silver coin that was trusted around the world, even as the miners who pulled it from the ground had trouble getting paid in that same silver. Greeley traces a captivatingly complex path across time and place, from the industrial collapse at the heart of Spain’s 17th-century silver empire, to the birth of American paper dollars in colonial Maryland, 19th-century New Orleans bank failures, and the small town of Hawarden, Iowa, which created its own dollars during the Great Depression. At every surprising turn, Greeley upends assumptions about global currencies and draws out the centuries-old tension between how dollars are manufactured and whom they actually serve. Singular in its breadth, The Almighty Dollar dismantles the myth that America created or has ever truly controlled the dollar. Through meticulous research and vividly rendered stories of merchants, monarchs, and everyday people both past and present, Greeley shows how the dollar became America’s greatest export, spawning a vast financial industry that enriches the wealthy, even as the rest of the country’s industries suffer.

500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money

The Almighty Dollar

Leicht verständlich bietet dieses Buch eine Einführung in die Vielfalt der Literaturwissenschaft. Einem Überblick über Literaturgeschichte und Gattungspoetik von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart folgen Kapitel zu aktuellen Theorien und Lektüremethoden – von formalen Analysen über psychologische, historische und postkoloniale Ansätze bis zu Digitalphilologie und empirischen Experimenten der Neuroästhetik. „Lesewerkstätten“ veranschaulichen diese Verfahren an ausgewählten&nbsp;Beispielen, Glossar und Bibliographie runden den Band ab. Das Werk richtet sich an alle, die&nbsp;literarische und andere Texte mit fachlichem Werkzeug und mit&nbsp;Vergnügen lesen lernen möchten.

Lesen lernen. Eine literaturwissenschaftliche Einführung

1. Ann Waltner; Introduction to Biography in East Asia in the Early Modern Period.- 2. Ihor Pidhainy; Finding Family through Chinese Biography: The Yangs of Xindu, Sichuan.- 3. Jolan Yi; Theory of Writing Biographies of Women in Eighteenth-Century China: A Case Study of Zhang Xue-cheng (1738-1801).- 4. Mark McNally; The Meiji-Qing Dispute Over Okinawa: Irredentism and the Ideological Potency of Royal Biography, 1872-1880.- 5. George Dutton; Pham Dinh Ho (1768-1839) and the Vietnamese Biographical Tradition.- 6. Sungoh Yoon; Countering Qing Intervention with the Legacy of Ming Emperor Hongwu: How Ming Loyalists Remained as Ideal Subjects in Nineteenth-Century Chos¿n Korea.

This edited collection is composed of four uniquely authored chapters, each of which examines collective identity in early modern East Asia through biography and historical accounts. In addition, an introductory chapter lays out the overall principles and concerns of biography in Early Modern East Asia.The book covers five civilizations (China, Japan, Ryūkyū Kingdom, and Vietnam) while also touching on relations among these civilizations. This volume considers how biographies or life stories can help us better understand these civilizations. Each contributor explores shared concerns about biography, writing, group and individual identity, and the implications of these on the overall genre of biography in East Asia in the early modern period.

Collecting Accounts

Biographical Traditions in Early Modern East Asia, 1500-1900

This book examines London’s eighteenth–century upholding trade. Primarily providing household furniture and upholstery goods and services at the beginning of the century, by mid-century upholders provided stylish and fashionable residential interior furnishings, funeral undertaking, and a secondary market for used household goods. Upholders were at the forefront of the development of Britain’s material culture, and were important contributors to London’s economic and social fabric. Providing context to the social and business lives of upholders, the author surveys key themes including apprenticeship, livery companies, empire, material culture, consumerism, taste and fashion, advertising, and credit. The book also explores how upholders came to dominate the funeral undertaking business, and integrated brokering, appraising, and auctioneering into their businesses.

Adapting to the economic changes and interior furnishing trends that took place in the first half of the eighteenth century, many upholders expanded their business lines. While consumer demand increased for household goods, so too did the widespread use of personal credit, which ultimately led to an increase in upholder bankruptcies after 1760. Through two case studies of financially successful upholders, the book sheds light on diverse topics such as the East India Company, banking, royal household tradesmen, and military contracting, to create an intricate understanding of their experiences. Offering new insights into the business, social, and personal lives of London’s upholders, this book demonstrates how they were instrumental in creating a new domestic commerce in eighteenth-century Britain.

This book examines London’s eighteenth–century upholding trade. Primarily providing household furniture and upholstery goods and services at the beginning of the century, by mid-century upholders provided stylish and fashionable residential interior furnishings, funeral undertaking, and a secondary market for used household goods. Upholders were at the forefront of the development of Britain’s material culture, and were important contributors to London’s economic and social fabric. Providing context to the social and business lives of upholders, the author surveys key themes including apprenticeship, livery companies, empire, material culture, consumerism, taste and fashion, advertising, and credit. The book also explores how upholders came to dominate the funeral undertaking business, and integrated brokering, appraising, and auctioneering into their businesses.Adapting to the economic changes and interior furnishing trends that took place in the first half of the eighteenth century, many upholders expanded their business lines. While consumer demand increased for household goods, so too did the widespread use of personal credit, which ultimately led to an increase in upholder bankruptcies after 1760. Through two case studies of financially successful upholders, the book sheds light on diverse topics such as the East India Company, banking, royal household tradesmen, and military contracting, to create an intricate understanding of their experiences. Offering new insights into the business, social, and personal lives of London’s upholders, this book demonstrates how they were instrumental in creating a new domestic commerce in eighteenth-century Britain.

A New Domestic Commerce

The Eighteenth–Century London Upholder

The Greek Case (1833-1939)

Tax and Taxation in State Formation

Even before its launch, economists questioned whether the Euro Area had what it takes to become an optimal currency area. The onset of the crisis in 2010 confirmed challenges in its construction that many had partly predicted. But has the Euro Area changed over time, and what key drivers are necessary to strengthen it in the future?&nbsp;
 This is the third of three volumes that use optimal currency area theory and applied econometric techniques to provide a compact analysis of the Euro Area, its evolution and future perspectives. This volume is dedicated to a criterion often seen as critical for an optimal currency area: a risk-sharing mechanism. Did the Euro Area’s stabilization mechanisms work as intended? In this timely book, the authors discuss the extent to which the Euro Area has developed fiscal transfers, insurance schemes, and financial markets that allow its members to share macroeconomic risks and smooth asymmetric shocks. The book is of interest to a wide range of researchers in financial economics, macroeconomics and economic policy.&nbsp;


 Johannes Dreyer
 is Associate Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. His fields of research include financial economics, macroeconomics, and the study of Optimal Currency Areas.
 Peter Schmid
 is Professor at FOM University of Applied Sciences, Germany and contract professor at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy. His fields of research include general business administration, economics, finance and entrepreneurship.

Even before its launch, economists questioned whether the Euro Area had what it takes to become an optimal currency area. The onset of the crisis in 2010 confirmed challenges in its construction that many had partly predicted. But has the Euro Area changed over time, and what key drivers are necessary to strengthen it in the future?&nbsp;
 This is the third of three volumes that use optimal currency area theory and applied econometric techniques to provide a compact analysis of the Euro Area, its evolution and future perspectives. This volume is dedicated to a criterion often seen as critical for an optimal currency area: a risk-sharing mechanism. Did the Euro Area’s stabilization mechanisms work as intended? In this timely book, the authors discuss the extent to which the Euro Area has developed fiscal transfers, insurance schemes, and financial markets that allow its members to share macroeconomic risks and smooth asymmetric shocks. The book is of interest to a wide range of researchers in financial economics, macroeconomics and economic policy.&nbsp;

Risk Sharing and Fiscal Federalism

Optimal Currency Areas and the Euro, Volume III

A bold retelling of the story of capitalism that blends fiction and fact to upend 250 years of economic orthodoxy. For a quarter of a millennium, Adam Smith’s invisible hand, ghostly and bloodied, has written the script of our lives. Everyman makes the ethereal ink in which it is etched legible by embodying the solitary, self-interested homo economicus as Neo. Telling the tale as a novel, Everyman traces global capitalism’s arc from boom to bust through its key characters: economics’ textbook “rational actor,” Neo, and his reckless apostles—model “finance bro,” Finn; ambassador of globalization, Davos; envoy to distant lands, Wash; and the quintessence of the tech industry, Tek. In a dazzling saga spanning generations and continents, Neo’s epic journey takes us from Chicago to New York to London, from Wall Street to Burning Man, from the factories of the Rust Belt to the farmlands of India, introducing us to the economic minds and political figures who have shaped our world, everyday people, and even runaway monsters. An entertaining magical realist romp, Everyman touches on the most significant economic events in global history, from the Great Depression to the 2008 Financial Crisis, Britain’s Brexit vote to the inexorable rise of populism globally. Drawing on moral psychology, philosophy, evolutionary biology, and beyond, it animates the possibilities for how we might build on our capacity for cooperation to reinvent our broken institutions—and ourselves. By breaking form to ignite our moral imaginations, it presents a vision for rewriting our modern-day mythology, our economic theory. Everyman asks: by recasting economics strawman protagonist as a flesh-and-blood character, can we turn the plot of our lives from an inevitable tragedy to a redemption story and alter the destiny of our civilization?

The Fictions of American Capitalism

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