ABSTRACT The 2008 financial crisis and its global repercussions engendered an outpouring of film and fiction, documentary and popular economics books as well as mainstream media representation and discussion. Yet, amid such overt creative efforts to portray and critique economic inequality, literary scholars seem at a loss on how to incorporate this momentum in the English department. Caught in a difficult catch-22, English studies are faced with a need to respond critically to cultural production that engages with economics, yet are facing pressure from the neoliberal university’s funding cuts and undermining of the critical thinking skills, ethics, imagination and imaginary that make up humanities disciplines. As a way out of the circular and disjointed efforts of literary critics and scholars from across the humanities to defend our disciplines, this paper looks to social science critics of neoliberal capitalism for their deployment of literature and the imagination in thinking alternative economies. Their methods of using literary fiction and their own creative writing to intervene in critique and propose alternatives suggest meaningful and inspirational uses of literature that English academics tend to miss or dismiss. My aim is to consider how we as academics and as citizens might engage our imaginations to think economics and our institutions differently.

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像经济学家一样阅读以重新构想人文学科

摘要 2008 年金融危机及其全球影响引发了大量电影和小说、纪录片和流行经济学书籍以及主流媒体的报道和讨论。然而，在描绘和批评经济不平等的公开创造性努力中，文学学者似乎不知如何将这种势头融入英语系。陷入困境 22，英语研究需要对与经济学相关的文化生产做出批判性回应，但面临着新自由主义大学削减资金的压力，以及批判性思维技能、伦理、想象力和想象力的削弱。组成人文学科。作为一种摆脱文学批评家和人文学科学者为捍卫我们学科而进行的循环和脱节的努力的一种方式，本文着眼于新自由资本主义的社会科学批评家，感谢他们在思考替代经济方面对文学和想象力的运用。他们使用文学小说和自己的创意写作来干预批评并提出替代方案的方法表明，英国学者往往会忽略或忽视文学的有意义和鼓舞人心的用途。我的目标是考虑我们作为学者和公民如何发挥我们的想象力，以不同的方式思考经济学和我们的制度。他们使用文学小说和自己的创意写作来干预批评并提出替代方案的方法表明，英国学者往往会忽略或忽视文学的有意义和鼓舞人心的用途。我的目标是考虑我们作为学者和公民如何发挥我们的想象力，以不同的方式思考经济学和我们的制度。他们使用文学小说和自己的创意写作来干预批评并提出替代方案的方法表明，英国学者往往会忽略或忽视文学的有意义和鼓舞人心的用途。我的目标是考虑我们作为学者和公民如何发挥我们的想象力，以不同的方式思考经济学和我们的制度。