Why Superman Doesn't Take Over the World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us about Economics

ISBN-13: 9780198829478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str.

J. Brian O'Roark

Recenzje

Brian O.!Roark cleverly applies the analytical tools of economics to questions that have stoked arguments among comic fans for decades, gently offering examples of economic reasoning and principles that today's students might find more entertaining than the typical textbook approach. In Why Superman Doesn't Take Over the World O.!Roark scores a trifecta, bringing social sciences, comics studies, and pedagogy together in a unique and entertaining package.

O autorze

Brian O.!Roark is a University Professor of Economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, and is a co-author of Essentials of Economics (with Lee Coppock and Dirk Mateer, W.W. Norton, 2016) and editor of Superheroes and Economics (Routledge, forthcoming). He is on the board of directors for the Journal of Economics Teaching and serves in the role of associate editor. In 2014, Brian was given the Undergraduate Teaching Innovation Award by the Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration and in 2016 he received the President's Award for Outstanding Teaching at RMU.