"Economy and Culture" has several meanings, related to each other, but different. In this monograph we refer above all to the dissemination of economic ideas through literary and artistic works: novels, movies, music, painting, journalism. Academic journals and books and professional debate are the usual field of economic science, but their dissemination not only takes place through these means. Being social sciences, and dealing with problems that interest the general public, they are often an

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... important part of the content of literary and artistic works. The ideas that appear there, adapted to the author's intention, may be close or far from those that most academic economists write about these same issues; but in both cases they contribute significantly to shaping public opinion, something always relevant in the social sciences. They are also part of the intellectual climate in which new ideas are developed among academics, what Schumpeter called the "preanalytic cognitive act" that drives the choice of our research topics.