The Grapes of Wrath
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While we are most likely to read The Grapes of Wrath as a novel that is centered on a set of compelling characters who attempt to overcome significant personal hardships, we may also read the book as something of an economic primer, for it allows us to understand in a very concrete way how the lives of individuals are affected by the larger structural forces of economics. By understanding how the characters in the book are affected by the economic A market characterized by a large number of independent sellers of standardized products, free flow of information, and free entry and exit. The sellers are "price takers" rather than "price makers". circumstances of their times, we can come to understand how we are affected by the economic structures of our own times. Steinbeck makes personal the seemingly impersonal forces of economic change.The novel tells the story of the Joad family, who are driven
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