RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Austen Equilibrium JF Representations FD University of California Press SP 63 OP 90 DO 10.1525/rep.2018.143.1.63 VO 143 IS 1 A1 Banerjee, Trisha Urmi YR 2018 UL http://rep.ucpress.edu/content/143/1/63.abstract AB By proposing a quantitative game-theory model of the marriage plot in Jane Austen’s Emma, this essay demonstrates that free-market moral philosophy underwrites Austen’s representation of matrimony and key formal elements of her writing—particularly, matters of verbal profusion. Her famed stylistic “economy” is revealed to be structured by the emerging capitalist economy that Adam Smith theorized in The Wealth of Nations. Establishing the correspondences among several kinds of economy, the essay unites economic and formal approaches to Austen’s work.