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 Professor of Economics, George Mason University, and general director, Mercatus Center With insight, wit, and sound judgment, Bohanon and Vachris not only ... Read moreshow 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 Show Less