129: Sarah Skwire on the Sensibility of Literature for Economic Thinking

is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, a non-profit educational foundation, and the co-author of the college writing textbook, Writing with a Thesis, which is in its 12th edition.

Sarah has published a range of academic articles on subjects from Shakespeare to zombies and the broken window fallacy, and her work has appeared in journals as varied as Literature and Medicine, The George Herbert Journal, and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Sarah writes a regular column for the Freeman Online and blogs for the Fraser Institute and Bleeding Heart Libertarians.

Sarah’s work on literature and economics has also appeared in Newsweek, The Freeman and in Cato Unbound, and she is an occasional lecturer for IHS, SFL, and other organizations. Her poetry has appeared, among other places, in Standpoint, The New Criterion, and The Vocabula Review.

Sarah graduated with honors in English from Wesleyan University, and earned a MA and PhD in English from the University of Chicago.

Books:

• Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
• High Wages by Dorothy Wipple
• Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber
• The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Emma by Jane Austin
• East of the Sun West of the Moon 
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

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