Economic-Literary Criticism
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This paper reads, rereads then rewrites Aesop's famous fable, "The Ant and the Grasshopper" as in exercise in "imaginary economics" to illustrate the usefulness of bringing together two disciplines commonly held apart; the social science... more
Commissioned by the African Association to find the Niger river, Mungo Park not only set a standard for future travel writers with his account of this journey in Travels in the Interior of Africa (1799), but his trip into terra incognita... more