Bonfire of the Clichés
Citation (APA): Skwire, S. (2016). Bonfire of the Clichés [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
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Bonfire of the Clichés By Sarah Skwire
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Linda Woodbridge’s Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in the New Economic Criticism
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sixteen essays
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about only one play, The Merchant of Venice.
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relying on The Merchant of Venice as the source for our image of Shakespeare’s attitude toward money means that we’re getting an impression that is about as reliable as depending solely upon Macbeth as the source for Shakespeare’s attitude towards marriage.
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x IL PROBLEMA
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Shakespeare wrote, after all, around 38 plays, 154 sonnets,
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Merchant is one of the briefest
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one small piece of the puzzle of how Shakespeare felt about money
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novels of Charles Dickens
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literature in Victorian England.
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the case that he is anti-business— A Christmas Carol and Hard Times— total
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141,925 words,
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Dickens published more than 4 million words.
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3.5%,
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what we have here is a failure to calculate.
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non-representative sample
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this kind of incomplete evidence is a plague in current discussions of markets and literature
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the problem of deduction by reduction.
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if one Googles, for example, “Shakespeare and economics” one will turn up thousands of results relating to Merchant.
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x GOOGLES
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Similar searches on “Dickens and economics” will lead equally rapidly and often to A Christmas Carol and Hard Times.
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It is not, after all, inaccurate to say that Merchant has a troubling take on what it means to engage in business, or that Scrooge is not a model employer.
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everyone goes hunting in the same place, and everyone finds the same things.
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there’s a whole lot going unexplored.
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Chicago professor Richard Strier
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Comedy of Errors
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“a world of merchants— every one of whom is honest generous and admirable.…There is not a single lie or deception, not a single crooked, devious, or dubious monetary dealing in the play. Contracts are honored, and it is a matter of shame not to do so. Money in the play is neither filthy nor corrupting. No one is self-conscious about it, and no one is either greedy or miserly. It is taken as perfectly normal not to cheat and to expect not to be cheated.”
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x COMMEDIA DEGLI ERRORI
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how different our thinking about Shakespeare’s economics would be if Comedy of Errors had the same death grip on our imaginations that Merchant now does.
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Or take Dickens.
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Hard Times is certainly a vicious attack on Manchester manufacturing,
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Bleak House
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CONTROESEMPIO
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waste of potential human capital that occurs when young men are not expected to engage in the world of work,
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character-destroying qualities of financial irresponsibility.
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Adam Smith scholars are familiar with this challenge,
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Smith’s opinions and politics can depend, more or less entirely, on whether they have read Wealth of Nations or Theory of Moral Sentiments,
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x CASO SMITH
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stop reading the same things that everyone else is reading.
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there are enormous untapped and unanalyzed veins of literature just waiting for the economically-minded to come read them.
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Rothbard has pointed to detective fiction as a useful model
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private policing.
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Loretta Chase’s Silk is for Seduction,
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participate in the bourgeois virtues of the dressmaker heroine, Marcelline Noirot.
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job “isn’t employment. It’s your vocation.”
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That’s the second part of our problem– a kind of intellectual inertia.
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we seem oddly eager to trust expert judgments about the amount and meaning of the economic content of literary works.
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TROPPO AFFIDAMENTO SUGLI ESPERTI
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literary critics may lack a good solid background in economics
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not be fully alert to the richness of the economic picture
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opening scene of Shakespeare’s Henry V,
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PUBLIC CHOICE
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two churchmen persuade Henry to invade France in order to distract him from a bill pending in parliament that would take church lands for the Crown.
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x SCENA
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overcome that intellectual inertia and revisit
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Let’s go back to Merchant of Venice
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the play contains some good lessons about the value of diversifying one’s investments,
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importance of avoiding the sunk cost fallacy,
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need for marine insurance.
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Hard Times?
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It is also about the nefarious union organizer, Slackbridge, who willfully destroys the character and life of the honest and forthright Stephen Blackpool when he declines union membership.
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x ADESIONE AL SINDACATO
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the problem with the whole debate over whether literature is pro-market or anti-market is
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....
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the whole debate is a false one.
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The surest way to write a bad novel, after all, is to write it because you really want to teach
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DIDATTICISMO
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.....
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Literature,
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thrives on subtlety and complexity.
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a whole range of opinions and attitudes
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just imagine every time you’re telling a good vs. evil story, you’re basically lowering your IQ by ten points or more.”
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IQ SI ABBASSA
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Literature is not for clear answers.
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data about how people felt and thought and wrote about economic and market
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.......
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we have a responsibility to find that data, to write about it,
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impulse to become a writer suggests a fundamental fiscal incompetence.”
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ESEMPIO DI FRASE NN VERA
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“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money,”
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FRASE VERA
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Neil Gaiman,
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CENA FRA LETTERATI
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when groups of authors get together the discussion is not about art and culture, but about royalties
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if we simply and weakly agree that yes, “literature is anti-market,” we are conceding a frontier that we do not need to concede.
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OPPOSIZIONE. NN CONCEDERE
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we do not need to concede.
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every time we do, we are increasingly rhetorically impoverished,
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Economics and the Humanities: It’s Time to Cross the Disciplines
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Centuries of literary criticism and snobbery seem aligned
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I suggest, instead, that we begin seriously to exploit gains from trade.
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INTERDISCIPLINA
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let’s do some real interdisciplinary work.
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Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Virtues and Bourgeois Dignity, Michael Watt’s Literary Book of Economics, the novels of Russ Roberts,
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x ES
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Cox and Cantor’s Literature and the Economics of Liberty, the Harry Potter scholarship Sturgis references,
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“a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.”
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humanities scholars and economists are paired up
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21st century coffeehouse of social media has made this kind of connection easier than ever,
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no one had thought of a journal like Literature and Medicine
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scholarship in the “medical humanities” would have seemed absurd.
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Co-authored articles are undervalued
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Reasons for Optimism
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reality television shows like Project Runway where fashion designers compete to show their own collections and get funding to start/ support their own businesses, or Shark Tank where entrepreneurs compete for venture capital, I’m not so worried that our cultural productions are killing our entrepreneurial drive.
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ESEMPI DI INDIV NEI MEDIA XXX
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anti-Statist and arguably anarchist Young Adult best sellers in the Hunger Games trilogy.
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SPERANZE cc
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the unschooling stance and praise for quirky individualism of the Mysterious Benedict Society.
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the music videos by John Papola, Russ Roberts, Remy, and Dorian Electra. (It’s a new age of political satire, and the YouTube video is our broadsheet, my friends.)
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Iron Man and Batman posed above the slogan: “Money: Best Superpower Ever.”
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c
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Hilary Mantel’s success with novels about Tudor politics— novels crying out for a good solid public choice exploration of the problems inherent in political action.
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self-publishing, which does nothing, I admit, to disprove Sturgeon’s Law, but which goes a long way to hearten those who like emergent orders instead of top-down organization.
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There is an enormous amount of energy at work for free people, free markets, and free minds.
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OTIMISMO
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We must make use of them.
