Elaine Hadley is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Chicago, USA.

Audrey Jaffe is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Models an innovative approach to understanding the social, political, and economic concerns of contemporary life

Of particular interest to scholars interested in literature and economics in Victorian and nineteenth-century studies

Examines key themes in economics such as property, labor, growth, and value through literature, culture, and history

Chapter 1: Introduction Reclaiming the Social, Elaine Hadley, Audrey Jaffe, and Sarah Winter.- Chapter 2: Human Capital Becker the Obscure: Human Capital Theory, Victorian Liberalisms, and the Future of Higher Education, Elaine Hadley.- Chapter 3: Exploitation On the Use and Abuse of the Nineteenth Century: Towards a Genealogy of Exploitation, Zachary Samalin.- Chapter 4: Slavery Forgetting Cairnes: The Slave Power and the Political Economy of Racism, Gordon Bigelow.- Chapter 5: Expansion Expansion in the Fossil Economy and Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman, Ay¿e Çelikkol.- Chapter 6: Sustainability Sustainability & Its Discontents: The View from the Nineteenth Century, Deanna K. Kreisel.- Chapter 7: Rent "When a House is So Much More": Character, Tenancy, and Propertyin Victorian Fiction,Audrey Jaffe Chapter 8: Corporation The Zero-Sum Game of Corporate Personhood, Clare Eby.- Chapter 9: Choice Narrating Choice in Later Nineteenth-Century Novels and Neoclassical Economics, Amanpal Garcha.- Chapter 10: Global Inequality Documenting Globalization in Rural India: The Conflation of the "Freedom of the Market" with The "Freedom of the Person" in The New York Times, Mukti Lakhi Mangharam.- Chapter 11: Equity Henry Mayhew and Thomas Piketty on Equity and Inequality, Sarah Winter.