Economics has always had a difficult relationship with literature. Although early economists such as Adam Smith adopted … its implications. Separation of economics from literature is unhelpful, as it plays down the cultural and historical …, economics had become professionalised into a self-contained discipline expressed in mathematical language and making little …

‘Potterian economics’, the economic ideas, insights and structure, found in Harry Potter books, to assess how the books might … principles of Potterian economics are consistent with economists’ models. Many other principles, however, are distorted and … contain numerous inaccuracies, contradicting professional economists’ views and insights. We conclude that Potterian economics …