This Companion provides students and researchers with a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics. Combining historical coverage with key topics, the volume will appeal to literary scholars and to historians and social scientists interested in the literary and cultural dimensions of economics.

Introduction: the interwovenness of literature and economics Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh; Part I. Histories and Critical Traditions: 1. Medieval literature's economic imagination Craig E. Bertolet; 2. Early modern literature and monetary debate David Landreth; 3. Literary and economic exchanges in the long eighteenth century E. J. Clery; 4. Economic literature and economic thought in the nineteenth century Sarah Comyn; 5. Women, money, and modernism Nicky Marsh; 6. Economic logics and postmodern forms Laura Finch; 7. Writing postcolonial capitalism Cheryl Narumi Naruse; Part II: Contemporary Critical Perspectives: 8. The economy of race Michael Germana; 9. American literature and the fiction of corporate personhood Peter Knight; 10. Political economy, the family, and sexuality David Alderson; 11. The literary marketplace and the rise of neoliberalism Paul Crosthwaite; 12. World systems and literary studies Stephen Shapiro; 13. Crisis, Labor, and the Contemporary Liam Connell; 14. Speculative fiction and post-capitalist speculative economies: blueprints and critiques Jo Lindsay Walton; Part III: Interdisciplinary Exchanges: 15. The Keynesian theory of Jamesonian utopia: interdisciplinarity in economics Matt Seybold; 16. Reading beyond behavioral economics Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro; 17. Fictional expectations and imagination in economics Jens Beckert, Richard Bronk.