This article reads C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) as a compact case study in the sociology of the family, with particular attention to relationships among the four Pevensie siblings: Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. Drawing on birth order theory, family systems thinking, and contemporary research on sibling relationships, the paper argues that the novel dramatizes how children in a sibling group take up differentiated roles, negotiate authority, and s

This article reads C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) through the lens of economics, and in particular through the core economic problem of scarcity and its management under rationing. The book was written and published in Britain during a long period of austerity, when wartime rationing had not only continued but in several respects deepened after 1945. The article argues that the novel is saturated with the language and logic of scarcity: the Pevensie

This article offers a neutral literary review of the linguistic play in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Rather than defending a single interpretation of the book, it evaluates how the text builds humor and meaning from the surface of language itself. The study concentrates on the actual words on the page: homophones such as tale and tail, the joke that lessons lessen from day to day, the Mock Turtle's punning school subjects, the parodies of moralizin

This article reads Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code as a case study in how value is created, guarded, and contested in the market for cultural objects. Written for readers in economics and business, it argues that the novel is not only a thriller about a hidden bloodline but also a sustained fantasy about #artifact_valuation: how a painting, a manuscript, or a relic comes to be treated as priceless, and who profits from that judgement. Drawing on recent scholarship in the econom

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is often read as pure whimsy, but beneath its nonsense lies a sustained record of a child learning, testing, and failing to apply the rules of her society. This article, written for the Faculty of Sociology and Pedagogy, reads Lewis Carroll's 1865 story as a case study in socialization, the process through which a young person acquires the norms, language, manners, and self-understanding that a community treats as normal. Drawing on the sociol

This article reads Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) as an extended fable about economic inefficiency, and in particular about the waste generated by dysfunctional rules and self-important officialdom. Writing for a Faculty of Economics and Business readership, the paper treats Wonderland not as a simple exercise in nonsense but as a controlled thought experiment in which ordinary economic frictions are pushed to their logical extremes. The analysis draw