The Society for Critical Exchange at Case Western Reserve University

The Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry at the University of Iowa

The Center for the Study of Money and Culture at Harvard University

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Conference Organizers:

• Donald McCloskey
• Mark Osteen
• Martha Woodmansee
• with the assistance of John Kuijper

• Economic Rhetoric
• Libidinal Economics
• Renaissance Economies
• Economies of Collecting
• The Merchant and Mercantilism
• If You're So Smart
• Toward a General Economy
• The Poet as Economist
• The Body Economic
• Economic Ethics
• What Can Literary Studies Do for Economics? What Can Economics Do for Literary Studies?
• Language and Money
• Modernism and Macroeconomics
• Self-Reliance
• Critical Economics
• Economics of Authorship
• Prophecy as Policy
• Global Capitalism
• Capital / Crimes
• Industrial Capital
• Literary Production
• Economics of Criticism
• Homo Economicus
• What Would a New Economic Criticism Be? What Should It Do? A Forum Wherein All Questions Arising out of the Proceedings Are Discussed and Resolved and an Agenda for Action Is Established.

Thursday, October 20

Reception & Registration

Friday, October 21

Economic Rhetoric (8:30 - 11:15 am)

moderated by Daniel Subotnik, Touro Law School

• "Painting By Numbers: Critically Exploring the Economic Rhetoric of Alan Greenspan" -- Geoffrey D. Klinger, St. John's U
• "The Power of As If: Pervasive Fictions in Economic Analysis" -- Ann Mayhew, U of Tennessee
• "The Rhetoric of Rate Regulation: Reading the Workers' Compensation Insurance Crisis" -- Martha McCluskey, Columbia U Law School
• "A Place in the Market" -- Charles Bazerman, Georgia Institute of Technology
• "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words" -- Ulla Grapard, Colgate U

Libidinal Economics (8:30 - 9:45 am)

moderated by Jos de Vinck, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

• "What Does Volpone Know? Baudrillard and the Economics of Seduction" -- Steve Larocco, Southern Connecticut State U [06]
• "'Libidinal Economics': Lyotard and Accounting for the Unaccountable" -- Brian Cooper, Harvard U, and Margueritte Murphy, Bentley College
• "Objects, Reserve, and the General Economy: Klossowski and Bataille" -- Eleanor Kaufman, Duke U

Renaissance Economies (8:30 - 11:15 am)

moderated by Max Thomas, U of Iowa

• "John Donne and Elizabethan Economic Theory" -- Coburn Freer, U of Georgia
• "Chiasmus and commodificatio: Crossing Tropes and Conditions in Donne's Elegy 11, 'The Bracelet'" -- Barbara Correll, Cornell U
• "Montaigne's Essais: Metaphors of Capital and Exchange" -- Nancy Lazar, Ohio State U
• "The Status of Class in Shakespeare" -- Sharon O'Dair, U of Alabama
• "Shakespeare and Possessive Individualism" -- Lars Engle, U of Tulsa
• "Genealogies of Doubt: Rhetoric, Usury, and Uncertainty in The Merchant of Venice -- Douglas W. Ryals, U of California, Irvine

Economies of Collecting (10:00 - 11:15 am)

moderated by Arkady Plotnitsky, Vanderbilt U

• "Re-: Re-flecting, Re-membering, Re-collecting, Re-selecting, Re-warding, Re-wording, Re-iterating, Re-et-cetera-ting, . . . (in) Hegel" -- Arkady Plotnitsky, Vanderbilt U
• "Exit the Body: When Private Collections Go Public" -- Jennifer Allen, U of Montreal
• "Potlatch Couture: Postmodern Economics and the Paris Collections" -- Gwendolyn Wells, Kenyon College

Friday Midday Session

moderated by Gary Lee Stonum, Case Western Reserve University

• "Handle with Care; or, Art and Money" -- Marc Shell, Harvard U

The Merchant and Mercantilism (2:00 - 3:45 pm)

moderated by Rachael Carnell, Cleveland State U

• "Constructing the Merchant, Measuring Commodities, Mapping the World: A Reading of Lewis Roberts's The Merchant's Mappe of Commerce (1638)" -- Barbara Sebek, St. Ambrose U
• "The Citizen of the World: Addison, Defoe, and the Valorization of Commerce" -- Roger D. Lund, LeMoyne College
• "The Moral Economy of English Mercantilism, 1660 - 1760" -- David Kuchta, U of California, San Diego
• "Trade Tales" -- Andrew Kurtz and Shekhar Deshpande, Carnegie Mellon U

If You're So Smart (2:00 - 3:45 pm)

moderated by Asim Erdilek, Case Western Reserve U

• discussion by Donald McCloskey, U of Iowa
• "Storytelling in Financial Economics" -- Sara Ann Reiter, State U of New York, Binghamton
• "Magus or Sportscaster? Redefining Economic Discourse" -- William Waller and Linda Robertson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• "Can There Be Genre Difference in Economics?" -- Bruce Pietrykowski, U of Michigan, Dearborn
• "Why Should We Believe You?" -- Howard Horwitz, U of Utah

Toward a General Economy (2:00 pm - 3:45 pm)

moderated by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Duke U

• "Making Cents of/with Metaphor" -- Tom Heeney, College of Charleston
• "The Poetics of Expenditure" -- Susan Blood, Yale U
• "Yeats, Bataille, and the Economy of Excess" -- Michael Mays, U of Southern Mississippi
• "'And of course Marx . . .': Derrida's Given Time I" -- John R. Barberet, Case Western Reserve University
• "Allegories of Exchange" -- Jos de Vinck, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

The Poet as Economist (4:00 - 5:45 pm)

moderated by Lewis Hyde, Kenyon College

• "Shelley's Vegetarian Economy" -- Timothy Morton, New York University
• "Himmelfarb's Culture of Poverty and Hopkins's 'poor Jackself'" -- Eugene Hollahan, Georgia State U
• "The Supreme Fiction of Surety: An Insurance Executive Looks at Wallace Stevens" -- Gary T. Anderberg, Zenith Insurance Co
• "Beat Economies" -- Allan Johnston, Illinois Institute of Technology
• "The Flavor of Floating" -- Nuala Archer, Cleveland State U

The Body Economic (4:00 - 5:45 pm)

moderated by Susan Feiner, U of Amsterdam

• "Modern Economics: The Case of the Disappearing Body?" -- Jack Amariglio, Merrimack College, and David Ruccio, Notre Dame U
• "The Phallus and Economics" -- Jean-Joseph Goux, Rice U
• "Beyond Appearance: The Invisible Hand as Dominant Rhetorical Feature of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery" -- Alan W. France, West Chester U
• "Fugitive Properties" -- Samira Kawash, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

Economic Ethics (4:00 - 5:45 pm)

moderated by William Marling, Case Western Reserve U

• "Fields, Economies, and the pro Roscio Amerino" -- Andrew M. Riggsby, U of Texas, Austin
• "Sade's Ethical Economies" -- David Martyn, U of Utah
• "Creditor / Debtor and Exchange: Effects of the Economies of Pity in the Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Jacques Rousseau" -- Guillemette Johnston, DePaul U
• "The Rhetoric of Beneficence and the Moral Economy of Philanthropy" -- Andrew Herman, Drake U

Friday Evening Session

What Can Literary Studies Do for Economics? What Can Economics Do for Literary Studies?

moderated by Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve U

• A Discussion with Jack Amariglio, Merrimack College; Jean-Joseph Goux, Rice U; Marc Shell, Harvard U; Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Duke U; Diana Strassmann, Rice U

Saturday, October 22

Language and Money (8:30 - 10:15 am)

moderated by Christina Crosby, Wesleyan U

• "Inscription and the Economy of Value" -- Andreas Motsch, U of Montreal
• "Symbolic Economies of Empire and Language in Defoe's Roxana " -- Janet Sorensen, Indiana U
• "Buying into Signs: Money and Semiosis in Eighteenth-Century Language Theory" -- Richard T. Gray, U of Washington
• "Balancing the Books: Money and the Translator" -- Jennifer Gage, Independent Translator

Modernism and Macroeconomics (8:30 - 10:15 am)

moderated by Jennifer Wicke, New York University

• "'Enough is not enough': Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound" -- LukeCarson, U of Victoria
• "Who Paid for Modernism?" -- Paul Delany, Simon Fraser U
• "Jean Toomer, Economics, and the Politics of Modernism" -- Barbara Foley, Rutgers U, Newark
• "A Man Is His Bond: The Great Gatsby and Deficit Spending" -- Michael Tratner, Stanford U

Self-Reliance (8:30 - 10:15 am)

moderated by Howard Horwitz, U of Utah

• "Writing in the Name of Emerson" -- T. S. McMillin, Oberlin College
• "The 'Shining Gold Eagle' and the 'White Gap': The Political Economy of Martin R. Delany's Blake; or the Huts of America" -- John Ernest, U of New Hampshire
• "Desire and Indifference in Sister Carrie: Neoclassical Interpretation" -- Chuck Lewis, U of Minnesota
• "The Calculating Self in The Rise of Silas Lapham" -- Richard J. Boland, Jr., Case Western Reserve U

Critical Economics (10:30 am - 12:15 pm)

moderated by Arjo Klamer, Erasmus U and George Washington U

• "Reform, Revolution, or Retrenchment: Coping with Economic Criticism" -- Marouf Hasian, Jr., DePaul U
• "The Languages of Development" -- Stephen Cullenberg, U of California, Riverside, and David Ruccio, Notre Dame U
• "The Naturalization of Privilege: Sexuality and Domesticity in Economic Narratives" -- Diana L. Strassmann, Rice U
• "Mushroom Men and Classical Physics: An Analysis of Economic Imperialism" -- Drucilla K. Barker, Hollins College
• "The Ends of Economics" -- Regenia Gagnier and John Dupr, Stanford U

Economics of Authorship (2:00 - 3:45 pm)

moderated by Peter Jaszi, American U Law School

• "Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village' and the Ambivalences of Commercial Capitalism" -- Alfred Lutz, U of Colorado
• "Smoking, the Hack, and the General Equivalent" -- Linda Austin, Oklahoma State U
• "Commodifying Tennyson: The Historical Transformation of 'Brand Loyalty'" -- Gerhard Joseph, City U of New York Graduate Center
• "Economies of Nervousness" -- Barbara Will, Darmouth College
• discussion by Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve U

Prophecy as Policy (2:00 - 3:45 pm)

moderated by Michael Tratner, Stanford U

• "Disciplining with the Dow: How the Stock Market Maintains Authority" -- Kiaran Honderich, Williams College
• "The Crowding Out of Academic Economists in the Policy Arena: The Case of a Rhetorical Gap" -- Arjo Klamer, Erasmus U and George Washington U
• " Rhetoric, Science, and Economic Prophecy: John Maynard Keynes's Correspondence with Franklin D. Roosevelt" -- Davis Houck, Penn State U
• "John Maynard Keynes, Influence, and Reenchantment" -- Martin Harries, Princeton U

Global Capitalism (4:00 - 5:45 pm)

moderated by Rosemary Coombe, U of Toronto Law School

• "Commodity Fetishism and the Symbolic Economy of Narratives of Women Migrant Workers from the Philippines" -- E. San Juan, Jr., Bowling Green State U
• "Colors on the Map: Narrative, Geography, and the Multicultural Work of Target Marketing" -- Peter Childers, U of British Columbia
• "Travelling Barbie: Female Bodies and Transnational Flows" -- Inderpal Grewal, San Francisco State U
• "'Be Our Guest': Disney's Beauty and the Beast in the Context of Eurodisney, GATT, and Cross-Cultural Exchange" -- Lawrence D. Needham, Oberlin College
• "'A World without Boundaries': Transnational Feminist Complicities and Resistances" -- Caren Kaplan, U of California, Berkeley

Capital / Crimes (4:00 - 5:45 pm)

moderated by Joel Foreman, George Mason U

• "Theft and Porous Articulation" -- Lewis Hyde, Kenyon College
• "Engines of Loss: Ritual Poker and Paul Auster's The Music of Chance" -- Joyce Goggin, U of Montreal
• "A Taste for More" -- Christina Crosby, Wesleyan U
• "Cribs in the Countinghouse: Plagiarism, Proliferation, and Labor in Joyce's 'Oxen of the Sun'" -- Mark Osteen, Loyola College
• "Queer Money" -- Will Fisher, U of Pennsylvania

Industrial Capital (4:00 - 5:45 pm)

moderated by N.N. Feltes, York U

• "Banishing Panic: Harriet Martineau and the Popularization of Political Economy" -- Elaine Freedgood, Columbia U
• "The Web of Usury and the Specular Illusions of Capitalism: Balzacian Fictions in Marx's Critique of Political Economy" -- Thomas M. Kemple, Concordia U
• "White Capital; or, Marx and Melville in Crisis" -- Cesare Casarino, State U of New York, Albany
• "Laying Tracks: Industrialization, Banking, and Bleak House" -- Gordon Bigelow, U of California, Santa Cruz

Saturday Evening Session:

moderated by Mark Osteen, Loyola College

• "Coterie Consumption: Bloomsbury, Keynes, and Modernism as Marketing"-- Jennifer Wicke, New York U
• discussion by David Ruccio, Notre Dame U

Sunday, October 23

Literary Production (8:30 - 10:15 am)

moderated by Lawrence D. Needham, Oberlin College

• "Economies of Writing: The Case of Pamphlets" -- Alexandra Halasz, Dartmouth College
• "'Nick'd Sticks for Merchants': Gendered Economies of Writing in Margaret Cavendish's CCXI Sociable Letters (1664): -- Molly Whalen, Case Western Reserve U
• "Litera Scripta Manet: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and the Problem of Republican Print Rationality" -- Grantland S. Rice, Ohio State U
• "The Capital Reader: Poe, Lucian Minor, and the End of Total Knowledge" -- Terry Whalen, U of Illinois, Chicago
• "Hacks, High Art, and Professionalism: Revisiting 'The Art of Fiction' Controversy" -- Thomas Strychacz, Mills College

Economics of Criticism (8:30 - 10:15 am)

moderated by Barbara Foley, Rutgers U, Newark

• "Marxism, Post-Marxism, and Global Inequality" -- Gregory Meyerson, U of North Carolina, Greensboro
• "Exploring Discursive Economies and Economic Discourse" -- Roberta J. Astroff, U of Pittsburgh
• "Theoretical (In)Securities: Risk and Return in Literary Studies" -- David Chioni Moore, Duke U
• "Queer Markets" -- Joel Foreman, George Mason U
• "Symbolic Economics: Adventures in the Metaphorical Marketplace" -- Amy Koritz, Tulane U, and Douglas Koritz, Buffalo State College

Homo Economicus (8:30 - 10:15 am)

moderated by Ulla Grapard, Colgate U

• "Allegories of Assimilation in American Economic Thought" -- William S. Milberg, New School for Social Research
• "How Money Talks: What It Means to Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" -- John Nelson, U of Iowa
• "The Unconscious Foundations of Rational Behavior" -- Susan Feiner, U of Amsterdam
• "Dominant Economic Metaphors and the Postmodern Subversion of the Subject" -- M. Neil Browne, Suzanne Bergeron and J. Kevin Quinn, Bowling Green State U

Sunday Closing Session:

What Would a New Economic Criticism Be? What Should It Do? A Forum Wherein All Questions Arising out of the Proceedings Are Discussed and Resolved and an Agenda for Action Is Established.

moderated by Donald McCloskey, U of Iowa

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