...Jane Elliott Abstract This essay examines the relationship between dominant trends in contemporary popular aesthetics and the microeconomic imagination of human behavior, which centers on individual allocation of finite resources to self-determined ends. I argue that this way of modeling human...

... Elliott sure wants such an alternative. She thinks that in becoming universal, microeconomics has left us with no way to distinguish among different kinds of human actors and to privilege some as good and others as bad; terrorists and antiterrorists play the same kinds of microeconomic games. What do you...

...). DAVID PAYNE 1 COMPENSATING FOR CAPITALISM and Smith's microeconomic theory of competitive equilibrium, in which both wages and profits tend naturally, by the operation of the market's "invisible hand," to reach some optimal point. After the 1870s, these two schools of thought would split into...

... Wallace and Dave Eggers, she comments: “[T]hese are guys who know a great deal about the world. They understand macro-microeconomics, the way the Internet works, math, philosophy, but . . . they’re still people who know something about 92 novel | spring 2011 the street, about family...

..., crosshatched with microeconomic and cultural fractures and obscured in the organization of rural land. The problem is less the lack of a middle class in Ireland—there certainly were middle ranks in commerce and in agriculture, as Trollope’s cast of characters attests—but rather what Lloyd describes as...