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War Movies and Economics: Lessons from Hollywood's Adaptations of
Military Conflict applies ongoing research in the relatively new
genre of economics in popular media to Hollywood's war movies.
Whether inadvertently or purposefully, these movies provide
numerous examples of how economic principles often play an
important role in military conflict. The authors of the chapters
included in this edited collection work to illustrate economics
lessons portrayed in adaptations such as Band of Brothers,
Conspiracy, The Dirty Dozen, Dunkirk, Memphis Belle, Saving Private
Ryan, Schindler's List, Spartacus, Stalag 17, and Valkyrie. Aspects
of these stories show how key economic principles of scarcity,
limited resources, and incentives play important roles in military
conflict. The movies also provide an avenue for discussion of the
economics of public goods provision, the modern economic theory of
bureaucracy, and various game-theoretic concepts such as strategic
moves and commitment devices. Where applicable, lessons from
closely related fields such as management are also provided. This
book is ideal reading for students of economics looking for an
approachable route to understanding basic principles of economics
and game theory. It is also accessible to amateur and professional
historians, and any reader interested in popular culture as it
relates to television, movies, and military history.
War Movies and Economics: Lessons from Hollywood's Adaptations of
Military Conflict applies ongoing research in the relatively new
genre of economics in popular media to Hollywood's war movies.
Whether inadvertently or purposefully, these movies provide
numerous examples of how economic principles often play an
important role in military conflict. The authors of the chapters
included in this edited collection work to illustrate economics
lessons portrayed in adaptations such as Band of Brothers,
Conspiracy, The Dirty Dozen, Dunkirk, Memphis Belle, Saving Private
Ryan, Schindler's List, Spartacus, Stalag 17, and Valkyrie. Aspects
of these stories show how key economic principles of scarcity,
limited resources, and incentives play important roles in military
conflict. The movies also provide an avenue for discussion of the
economics of public goods provision, the modern economic theory of
bureaucracy, and various game-theoretic concepts such as strategic
moves and commitment devices. Where applicable, lessons from
closely related fields such as management are also provided. This
book is ideal reading for students of economics looking for an
approachable route to understanding basic principles of economics
and game theory. It is also accessible to amateur and professional
historians, and any reader interested in popular culture as it
relates to television, movies, and military history.
Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria provides
an economics perspective on the witchcraft episode, and adds to the
growing body of work analyzing prominent historical events using
the tools of economics.
This collection of chapters comprises timely aspects of two rapidly
growing bodies of academic research: entrepreneurship and economic
freedom.Expert editors add to an important field of research, the
economics of entrepreneurship, and explore how institutions
influence entrepreneurial behavior. This book provides
comprehensive and contemporary insights into the interaction
between economic behavior of firms and households, economic
freedom, and entrepreneurship, and how it generates an environment
with greater opportunities for growth and development for
individuals, households, and private-sector firms. This advanced
and revolutionary book will prove to be a valuable tool for
academics conducting research in entrepreneurship and/or economic
freedom as well as for graduate students studying in these areas.
The volume also provides insight into the measurement and value of
economic freedom around the world, making it a useful resource for
policymakers and practitioners. Contributors: G.M. Alexander,
N.J.Ashby, D.L. Bennett, J. Bologna, R. Boylan, S.B. Caudill, T.
Cavusoglu, R.J. Cebula, J.R. Clark, S.O. Crofton, O. Dincer, R.K.
Goel, D.M. Gropper, R.W. Hafer, Joshua C. Hall, V. Hartarska, J.C.
Heckelman, R.G. Holcombe, J.V. Koch, R. Lawson, D.R. Lee, J.E.
Long, F.G. Mixon, Jr., R. Murphy, M.A. Nelson, B. Nikolaev, J.E.
Payne, R.M. Robinson, M.G. Simonton, D. Stansel, D. Tarabar, R.
Vedder
This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory
of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to
the Nazi Holocaust. More specifically, the book argues, as do
Breton and Wintrobe (1986), that the subordinates in the Nazi
bureaucracy were not "following orders" as they claimed during the
war crimes trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere, but were instead
exhibiting an entrepreneurial spirit in competing with one another
in order to find the most efficient way of exacting the Final
Solution. This involved engaging in a process of exchange with
their superiors, wherein the subordinates offered the kinds of
informal services that are not codified in formal contracts. In
doing so, they were competing for the rewards, or informal payments
not codified in formal contracts, that were conferred by those at
the top of the bureaucracy. These came in the form of rapid
promotion, perquisites (pecuniary and in-kind), and other awards.
The types of exchanges described above are based on "trust," not
formal institutions.
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