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 …

-technical approach is adopted, and is intended to serve as an entry into this important new literature for the reader with no background …

Most people think of science and literature as distinct human endeavours. According to received convention, science is … mostly about "mind", whereas literature is largely about "heart". Science, goes the argument, is by and large rational …, literature primarily emotional. Science is about thinking, literature about feeling. The practical implication of this duality is …