Paul A. Cantor

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Much Ado about Nothing in the Art Market

06/11/2021 Mises Wire Paul A. Cantor

The recent sale of an invisible statue for £13,000 is symptomatic of the thoroughgoing financialization of our economy. Investors have become ever more obsessed with the symbols of economic reality and less concerned with underlying economic facts.

The Dark Side of the American Dream

11/22/2019 Mises Wire Paul A. Cantor

Paul Cantor's new book provides a new look at how the "American dream" is shown in pop culture as offering both hope and frustration.

Literature, Culture, and Economics

07/30/2019 The Austrian Paul A. Cantor

Teaching literature has changed now that the humanities have become a species of what is known as grievance studies, concerned with whether a given author is sexist or racist or classist. This is a cultural shift in education, and not for the better.

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Shelley’s Radicalism: The Poet as Economist

06/20/2018 Paul A. Cantor

[Chapter 4 from Literature & the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture, edited by Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox.] The real difference between Byron and Shelley is this; those who understand and love them rejoice that Byron died at

Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture

12/04/2009 Paul A. Cantor Stephen D. Cox

The economic interpretation of literature is dominated by ideas derived from Marxism — ideas that demonize the market as the enemy of all that is good. This book, edited by well-known literary critics Paul Cantor (University of Virginia) and Stephen

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