Economic Rhetoric and Literary Narrative: Some Considerations Regarding the Section "Literature as Economics" From the Dictionary of Economic Rhetoric

This study examines the section "Literature as Economics" from the Dictionary of Economic Rhetoric (PRADO, 2024), seeking to understand how narrative elements and rhetorical strategies traditionally associated with the literary field shed light on the formulation, circulation, and reception of economic concepts in contemporary times. Starting from the premise that economics does not operate solely through mathematical models, but also through narratives that shape perceptions and legitimize practices, we analyze how literary texts, in different eras, anticipated, problematized, or translated into the collective imagination economic notions that are widely discussed today — such as risk management, asymmetric changeable contractualism, currency depreciation, and market rationality. In this way, literature is taken as a privileged space to observe the historicity of these concepts and their symbolic projection. By articulating economic rhetoric and literary narrative, the study demonstrates that literature not only represents the economic, but also actively participates in the construction of its meanings and disputes.