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Dystopia and Economics - A Guide to Surviving Everything from the Apocalypse to Zombies (Paperback)
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Dystopia and Economics - A Guide to Surviving Everything from the Apocalypse to Zombies (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Economics and Popular Culture Series
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Government collapsing? Zombies hunting you down? Everyone you know
killed by a global epidemic? 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.
Economists observe human behaviour: what leads us to take action,
and the subsequent consequences. However, the choices made by
individuals are not made in isolation; they influence and are
influenced by the actions of others. A set of rules, even if
unwritten, guides human behaviour. Foundational economic principles
stand firmly in place, even when society is breaking down, and an
understanding of these basic tenets of societies is essential to
surviving the end of the world as we know it. In this book, the
authors draw from popular culture to show economic principles at
work in the dystopian societies depicted in The Walking Dead, Mad
Max: Fury Road, The Hunger Games, Divergent, A Clockwork Orange,
and Last Man on Earth. In each society, its members face resource
and social constraints that incentivize particular behaviours and
lead to predictable outcomes. How does human behaviour change when
resources are severely limited, the legal system breaks down, or
individual freedom is stifled? The examples presented here shed an
eerie light on the principles that guide our actions every day.
Dystopia and Economics: A Guide to Surviving Everything from the
Apocalypse to Zombies provides a user-friendly introduction to
economics suitable for a general audience as well as devoted
students of the discipline.
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