Mises Daily
Author:
Paul A. Cantor
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“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.” – Samuel Beckett “The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.” – Theodor Adorno [Chapter 1 of Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture ] I. In the contemporary academy, to say that one is taking an economic approach to literature