The economy of James Branch Cabell

Abstract

James Branch Cabell was an American journalist, novelist, and essayist, whose best-known work is that of fantasy. His 1919 work, Beyond Life, has a chapter entitled “Which Admires the Economist.’ In it he explores three modes of or attitudes toward life, together constituting the economy: the gallant, the chivalrous, and the poetic, the last of the three providing the raw materials for creativity. The exchange economy is combined with the creative versus the prosaic person and with the abstract versus the practical modes of living. The result amounts, in part, to a theory of entrepreneurship or leadership.

Citation

Samuels, W.J. (2001), "The economy of James Branch Cabell", A Research Annual (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 19), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 63-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(01)19006-1