Introduction. Sublime economy: on the intersection of art and economics / Jack Amariglio, Joseph W. Childers and Stephen E. Cullenberg
Pt. I. "Tokens of eccentricity": value and the aesthetic representation of economy
1. Tracing the economic: modern art's construction of economic value / Jack Amariglio
2. Meaning to say ... / Judith Mehta
3. Use, value, aesthetics: gambling with difference/speculating with value / Joseph W. Childers and Stephen E. Cullenberg
Pt. II. Sublime intercourse: economics meets aesthetics (and vice versa)
4. Reluctant partners: aesthetic and market value, 1708-1871 / Neil De Marchi
5. On the contemporaneousness of Roger de Piles' Balance des Peintres / Victor Ginsburgh and Sheila Weyers
6. How aesthetics and economics met in voc ed / Evan Watkins
7. Economics meets esthetics in the Bloomsbury Group / Craufurd D. Goodwin
8. Individualism, civilization, and national character in market democracies / Regenia Gagnier
9. Art, fleeing from capitalism: a slightly disputatious interview/conversation / Deirdre McCloskey and Jack Amariglio
10. Imaginary currencies: contemporary art on the market - critique confirmation, or play / Olav Velthuis
11. sociology of the new art gallery scene in Chelsea, Manhattan / David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso
12. lives of cultural goods / Arjo Klamer
Pt. IV. Moral economics and the romance of money
13. rhetoric of prostitution / Jennifer Doyle
14. heap of worthless fragments: the nineteenth-century literary revaluation of the classical statue / Yota Batsaki.