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Pt. 1. The Robinsonades : the development of the unencumbered rational economic man -- pt. 2. The quintessential rational economic man : feminist interrogations -- pt. 3. The quintessential rational economic man : postcolonial interrogations.
In this book, economists and literary scholars examine the uses to which the Robinson Crusoe figure has been put by the economics discipline since the publication of Defoe's novel in 1719. The authors' critical readings of two centuries of texts that have made use of Robinson Cr…