Economics in the Movies (with Access Card)
Introduction. FILM SCENES FOR LEARNING ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES. 1 Opportunity Cost: The Family Man. 2 Gains from Exchange: Out of Sight. 3 The Great Depression: Seabiscuit. 4 Growth & Prosperity: The Man Who Wasn?t There. 5 Money as a Medium of Exchange: Waterworld. 6 Unemployment: Reality Bites. 7 Inflation: The Major and the Minor. 8 Banking System: It?s a Wonderful Life. 9 Measuring Economic Performance: Traffic. 10 Comparative Advantage: Babe. 11 Intertemporal Time Management: About a Boy. 12 Consumer Choice: The Meaning of Life. 13 Monopoly: Being John Malkovich. 14 Asymmetric Information: Intolerable Cruelty. 15 Efficiency: Along Came Polly. 16 Game Theory: In the Name of the Father. 17 Unions: Bread & Roses. 18 Income: Parenthood. 19 Environmental Economics: Erin Brockovich. 20 Auctions: The River. Bibliography. Index.