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 Preface

Acknowledgments

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Introduction    1

1. Jeffersonian Economics: Debt and the Production of Value    11

2. Three Aspects of the Jeffersonian Political Aesthetic   42

3. The Virtues of Distribution: A Genealogy of Poundian economics    68

4. Fertility Rites/Financial Rites: Pound, Williams and the Political ecopnomy of Sex    111

5. Poesis versus Production: The Economic Defense of Poetry in the Age of Corporate Capitalism    139

6. Dewey, Williams and the Pragmatic Poem   164

7. Overcoming Modernity. Representing the Corporation and the Promise of Pluralism    217

Notes   243

Bibliography    269

Index   281