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조화와 균형: 프랭크 노리스의 『피트』에 나타난 고전 경제학

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Harmony and Equilibrium: Classic Economics in Frank Norris’s The Pit

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The Pit (1902), Frank Norris‘s bestseller novel, has often been read either as the story of the wheat market or as that of domestic conflicts. Reconciling the two seemingly disparate accounts, the paper claims that the powerful economic model of harmony and equilibrium, propounded by economics since the eighteenth century, permeates both public and private spheres in the novel. According to classic economics, the market, albeit temporarily disrupted by unwanted and unforeseen forces such as speculative gambling, cornering, and interventions, will ultimately regain stability and equilibrium. Such unshakable belief in the rational market order is what Joseph Vogl terms “oikodicy.” In the novel, Jadwin, the formidable bull, is punished for cornering the wheat market and thus defying the indomitable market law of demand and supply. Norris similarly applies the theory of oikodicy to the disintegrating private sphere in which Laura feels increasingly alienated from and abandoned by Jadwin. Norris argues that marriage life is built upon the economic idea that the true worth of the husband is best determined by the wife, and vice versa. Faithful to such market-inflected model, Norris also insists, masculinity and femininity will and should maintain harmony and equilibrium.

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I. 들어가며
II. 오이코디시: 밀의 경제학
III. 매점과 비이성
IV. 가정의 경제학: 조화와 균형
V. 나가며
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  • 백준걸 Joongul Paek. 이화여대, 부교수

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