Cormac Mccarthy

Bringing together evolutionary economics and the humanities, this study uses the fiction of Cormac McCarthy as a detailed test case. Its central claim is that economic policy, environmental crisis, and the way officials and public discourse frame their choices cannot be understood in isolation, since they are tangled together. The author shows how policy and rhetoric help shape the values a society comes to hold, and how McCarthy's writing registers these connections.

The work appears at a time when the world is recovering from a major economic crisis while anticipating the possibility of another. Against that backdrop, it asks how literature can challenge the sense that global economic inequality and ecological disaster are unavoidable. Its focus on the methods writers use to question such narratives of inevitability makes the study increasingly pressing.