Kindleberger the Linguist

Abstract:The article comments on the previously unpublished text by C. P. Kindleberger featured in the present issue, which was given to the author in 1998. In re-placing the background controversy in context, I propose a novel perspective on Kindleberger’s scholarship as a linguistic of capitalism. While elucidating an important aspect of Kindleberger’s contributions, notably to international political economy, the suggested approach also serves to front-load Capitalism’s interest in promoting the conversation between literary criticism and political economy.