Lexington Books
Pages: 206
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7391-9183-5 • Hardback • December 2015 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-4985-3026-2 • Paperback • July 2017 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
978-0-7391-9184-2 • eBook • December 2015 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Cecil E. Bohanon is professor of economics at Ball State University.
Michelle Albert Vachris is professor of economics at Christopher Newport University.
1 Introduction: Why Jane Austen and Adam Smith?
2 A General Introduction to Smith's Moral Theory
3 Virtues and Vices in Smith
4 Self-Command in Sense and Sensibility
5 Prudence, Benevolence, and Justice in Mansfield Park
6 Vanity in Persuasion
7 Pride in Pride and Prejudice
8 Greed and Promises in Northanger Abbey
9 Man of System and Impartial Spectator in Emma
10 Land Rents, Income, and Entails
11 Representation of Business in Smith and Austen: Adopting the Bourgeois Virtues
12 Social Rank in Smith and Austen
13 Reflections on the Intersection between Jane Austen and Adam Smith and its Relevance for Today
What do Adam Smith and Jane Austen have in common? This tour de force ties the worlds of economics and literature together, leaving the reader delighted and informed along the way.— Tyler Cowen, Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and founder of Marginal Revolution
[Provides] important contect for Austen's fiction and analyzes ideas and texts with clarity and enthusiasm.
— Jasna News
With insight, wit, and sound judgment, Bohanon and Vachris not only show us the perhaps surprising degree to which Austen and Smith complement and enrich each other, but they also enhance and deepen our own understanding of human sociality. Perhaps we could not have known just how much a book like this needed writing, but now that Pride and Profit is here one has to wonder whether we truly understood Austen, Smith, or human sociality before.— James R. Otteson, Wake Forest University
What do Adam Smith and Jane Austen have in common? This tour de force ties the worlds of economics and literature together, leaving the reader delighted and informed along the way.— Tyler Cowen, Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and founder of Marginal Revolution
With insight, wit, and sound judgment, Bohanon and Vachris not only show us the perhaps surprising degree to which Austen and Smith complement and enrich each other, but they also enhance and deepen our own understanding of human sociality. Perhaps we could not have known just how much a book like this needed writing, but now that Pride and Profit is here one has to wonder whether we truly understood Austen, Smith, or human sociality before.— James R. Otteson, Wake Forest University