Dystopia and Economics: A Guide to Surviving Everything from the Apocalypse to Zombies

ISBN-13: 9781138051355 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 82 str.

Charity-Joy Revere Acchiardo; Michelle Albert Vachris

Opis

Government collapsing? Zombies hunting you down? Not to worry! Economics holds the keys to survival. Often known as "the dismal science", it is particularly equipped to reveal order in what seems like chaos. This book draws from popular culture to show economic principles at work in the dystopian societies depicted in TV, literature and film.

Spis treści

List of Contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, Chapter 1. The Walking Econ: Learning Economics from The Walking Dead, Chapter 2. Never a Lovely Day: the Wretched Economics of Mad Max: Fury Road, Chapter 3. The Odds are Never in Your Favor: Preventing Economic Growth in The Hunger Games, Chapter 4. The Divergent Economics of Factions and Governing, Chapter 5. Choice, Liberty and Repression in A Clockwork Orange, Chapter 6. Last Man Rules!