1st Edition
Economics and Art Theory
Drawing on an interdisciplinary panel of contributors, this book presents a stimulating dialogue between economics and art theory and considers how this might aid our understanding of both areas of research.
The collection explores themes which both fields share, including rationality, abstraction and model building, the nature of social reality, representation and transformation. The contributions employ a broad range of methods to investigate the links between economics and art, and their coverage includes architecture, history of ideas, art theory, literature studies and beyond.
This innovative volume will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of economic theory, cultural economics, literary and art theory and it intends to be a starting point for new avenues of interdisciplinary research.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Foreword by Louise Braddock
Introduction
Stratos Myrogiannis and Constantinos Repapis
Part I
Economics, Literature and Representation
1 Economic thought and novels: What can we expect from the economy?
Claire Pignol
2 Men of Feeling: Sympathy, Imagination and the Value of Interdisciplinary Exchange
Foteini Lika
3 Adamantios Koraes and his tropics of discourse: Art, Science and Economics as therapeutic debts
Stratos Myrogiannis
Part II
Economics, Visual Arts and Abstractions
4 Economy, efficiency and the promenade deck: Thoughts on the history of architectural theory
Stravros Alifragkis
5 Resemblances and Disjunctions: Art, Mathematics and Economic Models
Ragupathy Venkatachalam
6 Fragments, Spolia and Economic Texts
Constantinos Repapis
Part III
Reflections on Economics, Society and Art
7 Art as Experience: The Aesthetic Dimensions of Meta-Economic Concerns in E. F. Schumacher’s Work
Sarath Jakka
8 "Man, the Prisoner of Logic": Towards an Optics of Equanimity
Michael Uebel
9 Economics, the Plastic Arts and Social Transformation
Sheila Dow
Index
Biography
Stratos Myrogiannis is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the Hellenic Open University, Greece.
Constantinos Repapis is Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
