By Guido Erreygers

Economists haven't continually been on pleasant phrases with scientists from different fields. greater than as soon as, economists were accused of 'imperialism' or criticized for neglecting the insights got in different fields. The heritage of economics, even though, yields manifold examples of interdisciplinary 'borrowing' the place economists have tailored thoughts and theories from different fields. This e-book offers with the exchanges (or occasionally the shortcoming thereof) among economics and neighbouring disciplines. The contributions learn particular circumstances and episodes taken from the background of economics, indicating that many vital economists have been being attentive to what occurred past the borders in their personal box. the subjects lined comprise: the interplay of economics with literature, Christian theology, heritage, demography, and common sciences the relationships among economics and coverage, and economics and 'common sense'. With contributions from top experts, this quantity will turn out crucial interpreting not just for these operating in economics, but in addition these drawn to the chances of disciplinary cross-fertilisation in any topic.

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It is even more effective than words in saying what words could not say, or are not able to say. Money is a powerful symbol in Dostoevsky’s literary work. An extreme position (although somewhat childish, as befits the character involved) is expressed by Arkadij, the young protagonist of The Adolescent. His dominant idea is ‘to become a Rothschild’. Why so? Not for the pleasures and riches that money can provide; indeed, he considers that he does not care for material goods, and might well go on dressed in an old coat, eating bread and ham.

This is the mystery of Iago, familiar to all who have tackled interpretation of Shakespeare (Bradley 1962). The question has no place and no answer in economic parables. In most of its great currents of ideas, economic thought endeavoured to show how human beings can live together and cooperate despite contrasting interests, or thanks to them. It attempted to show how the market can reconcile conflicts between human beings in transactions. Although this line of thought has thrown up deep and significant insights into sociality, economic thinkers have suffered from a bias: they seem to have systematically sought to eliminate the darker side of human behaviour from the explanations and interpretations offered by economic theory.

Although marked by the odd excess, the novel effectively portrays the impulse dominating the protagonist in his business activities: an urge to be successful, to get social attention, to be at the centre of the stage, to dominate other human lives and to redeem his previous failures in life. Fraud and waste in economic life In many novels economic life is an aspect of the wider scenery of social life created by the author. Among the social figures who interplay in the story, and intervene in the hero’s life, some characters are sketched by the author with the main focus on their economic activities.

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