Table of Contents

1. Introduction Ulla Grapard and Gillian Hewitson Part 1: The Robinsonades: The Development of the Unencumbered Rational Economic Man 2. Reading and Rewriting: The Production of an Economic Robinson Crusoe Michael V. White 3. Robinson Crusoe and the Secret of Primitive Accumulation Stephen Hymer 4. Robinson Crusoe and the Economists William S. Kern 5. Robinson Crusoe and the Subject of Economics Antonio Callari Part 2: The Quintessential Rational Economic Man: Feminist Interrogations 6. Robinson Crusoe: The Quintessential Economic Man? Ulla Grapard 7. Robinson Crusoe: The Paradigmatic ‘Rational Economic Man’ Gillian J. Hewitson 8. Family Troubles Brian Cooper 9. Economic Man Lost in Space Ulla Grapard and Gillian Hewitson 10. Robinson Crusoe and the Female Goddesses of Disorder Christine Owen Part 3: The Quintessential Rational Economic Man: Postcolonial Interrogations 11. Towards a Friday Model of International Trade Melanie Samson 12. Mercantilism and Criminal Transportation Anna Neill 13. What Would an African Student make of Robinson Crusoe? Eiman Zein-Elabdin 14. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe: the ‘Amazement of Reading’ Nicole Bracker

About the Author

Ulla Grapard is Associate Professor at Colgate University, USA, where she teaches economics and women’s studies. A founding member of IAFFE, the International Association For Feminist Economics, her research concerns feminist critiques of economic theory and practice from a postmodern perspective.

Gillian Hewitson is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia, where she teaches in feminist economics, heterodox economics and the political economy of development. Her research is located at the intersection of feminist economics, postcolonialism and economics and the history of economic thought.