Books as Primary sources  (Subjects of essays)

Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward: 2000-1887 . New York: Penguin, 1982. ISBN: 0140390189

Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. New York: Penguin, 1998. ISBN: 0140481346

Norris, Frank. The Pit. New York: Penguin, 1994. ISBN: 0140187588

Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. M. Lindsay Kaplan. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002. ISBN: 0312256248

Sinclair, Upton.  The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition. Tucson: See Sharp Press, 2003. ISBN:1884365302. 

            Comment:   Bellamy's novel Looking Back is science fiction. It analyzes man's nature: selfish or not and
posits some designs for the future of commerce and society.  Written in the late 1800s in the US.

Arthur Miller's tragedy Death of a Salesman examines the values of the service inductry and the role of the
person who sells others things.  New York playwright.

Frank Norris, Chicago writer, exposed the failings and greed of the Chicago
commodities market in this late 1800s novel. 

Shakespeare's tragedy, The Merchant of Venice,  treats the career of a Jewish merchant and raises
issues of both race/religion and class.

Upton Sinclair's 1905 novel The Jungle told of the sufferings
of the Lithuanian and other immigrant workers in the Chicago meat packinghouses.

Badaracco, Joseph L. Jr. (2006). Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 221 p.). John Shad Professor of Business Ethics  Harvard Business School. Leadership; Leadership--Moral and ethical aspects.

Bigelow, Gordon. (2003). Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 229 p.). Assistant Professor of English (Rhodes College). Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
 

            Comment:  --Knowledge--Economics; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Knowledge--Economics; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Economics in literature; Economics--Great Britain--History--19th century; Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852--Historiography.
 

Farnham, Henry W. (1978). Shakespeare's Economics. (Philadelphia, PA: R. West, 187 p. 

    orig. pub. 1931)).
 

 
           Comment:  Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Knowledge--Economics; Economics      in literature; England--Economic conditions--16th century. 

Hume, Kathryn (2000). American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction Since 1960. (Urbana, IL: University of            Illinois Press.