From the Golden Taurus to the Golden Calf. Chirkova E.V.

World literature through the eyes of an economist.

The release of paper money and slave trade, financial bubbles and debt prison, the death of the “noble nests” and the implementation of the conveyor, the atmosphere of the NEP and hyperinflation in the Soviet Union, the “roaring twenties” and the Great Economic depression in the United States, railway fever in England. All these economic phenomena are reflected in world literature, which is especially acutely responding to all changes in society. For contemporaries, this side of life was more than relevant, but the reader of the 21st century often does not even have an idea of ​​what is being discussed. What was the percentage rate of usurers, who was ozostled on gold fever, what proportion was the corruption in Russia of the XIX century and how did Mr. Hyde and Count Dracula cash out the checks? This book is precisely designed to illuminate this extremely interesting and poorly studied side of world literature.