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- Another satire on human greed and on capitalism in general is Terry Southern's 1959 novel The Magic Christian.
- Another satire of academia is Moo, by Jane Smiley, which satirizes life and work at a midwestern university.
- Henry Adams's novel Democracy (1880) also deals with political corruption and possible threats to American democracy.
- Under the nom de plume of Marshall Jevons, U.S. professors of economics William Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga have written three mystery books, Murder at the Margin, The Fatal Equilibrium, and A Deadly Indifference. The protagonist of these novels is Henry Spearman, who relies on economic thinking to solve crimes.
- For a depiction of the world of academe, see also the list of books at School and university in literature.
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