pt. 1. Literature and economics ch. 1. "The mouth-tale of the giants": an introduction to the economics of imagination -- ch. 2. Economics in Mammon's cave -- ch. 3. "Unreal words": language in political economy -- ch. 4. William Blake and "the price of experience" -- pt. 2. Labor theory and the literary work ch. 5. The art of labor -- ch. 6. The psychomachia of labor -- ch. 7. Wordsworth's labor theory: an economics of compensation -- ch. 8. "Getting it" in Paterson: The increment defended -- Afterword The merchant as poet