Joshua S. Hanan (PhD, University of Texas–Austin) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Denver. Mark Hayward (PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at York University.

• Contents: Mark Hayward: Political Economy and Cultural Studies: Methodological Reflections on The Economic in U.S. Communication Studies – Sarah E. Dempsey/David Carlone: Autonomist Marxism and the Contributions of Generative Dialogue – Joshua S. Hanan: From Economic Rhetoric to Economic Imaginaries: A Critical Genealogy of Economic Rhetoric in U.S. Communication Studies – James Arnt Aune: From Corax to Coase: Rhetoric and Rational Choice Theory – Michael Kaplan: The Communicative Efficacy of Markets – Jodi Dean: Communicative Capitalism: This is What Democracy Looks Like – Richard Maxwell/Toby Miller: Books: Culture, Economy, Environment – Catherine Chaput: The Rhetorical Situation and the Battle for Public Sentiment: How Friedman Overtook Galbraith at the Dawn of Neoliberalism – Pamela Conners/Ryan Solomon: The Business of School Board Deliberation – Nneka Logan/M. Lane Bruner: The Supreme Court and Money as Speech: A Rhetorical Analysis of Landmark Corporate Speech Rights Rulings – Ronald Walter Greene/Sara Holiday Nelson: Struggle for the Commons: Communicative Labor, Control Economics, and the Rhetorical Marketplace – Nico Mouton/Sine N. Just: Deceiving Knaves or Deluded Fools? Communication as a Cause of the Financial Crisis – Mark Hayward/Joshua S. Hanan: Afterword: Where are We Now? Historicizing Contemporary Research on the Economy in Communication Studies.