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The Great Gatsby: Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, Oxford

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From: Eastern Economic Journal
Date: 20030401
Author:Fair, Ray C

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of the classics of American literature. I, like many, first read it in high school. A recent re-read, however, with the mature eyes of an economist, led me to the following passage, which I had somehow overlooked in my earlier days. While Jay Gatsby nervously awaited the arrival of Daisy in Nick Carraway's house, he "looked with vacant eyes through a copy of Clay's Economics" [Fitzgerald, 1925, 89]. Clay's Economics is an introductory economics text, written by the British economist Henry Clay, and this bit of free advertising piqued my interest ...

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