Economics and Art Theory

<p>Drawing on an interdisciplinary panel of contributors this book presents a stimulating dialogue between economics and art theory and considers how this might aid our understanding of both areas of research.</p><p>The collection explores themes which both fields share including rationality abstraction and model building the nature of social reality representation and transformation. The contributions employ a broad range of methods to investigate the links between economics and art and their coverage includes architecture history of ideas art theory literature studies and beyond.</p><p>This innovative volume will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of economic theory cultural economics literary and art theory and it intends to be a starting point for new avenues of interdisciplinary research.</p>