The economics of The Hunger Games

Cleveland, Jeffrey; Holder, Kim; O’Roark, Brian

doi:10.1504/ijpee.2016.078860

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“…The above-mentioned explanations encourage many experts to teach economics using movies as the instructional media in classes. For instance, Cleveland, Holder in [17], and O'Roark in [7] used the movie "The Hunger Game" to illustrate that the series of economic concepts including production possibilities, the role of institutions, comparative advantages, and income inequality are part of this Hunger Game world while Luccasson, Hammock, and Thomas in [23] used four cartoon shows to illustrate the principle of macroeconomics. The more popular cartoon show used to teach economics is "The Simpson" by Gillis and Hall in [6] and Hall in [24].…”

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“…Outstanding works were made Gillis and Hall in [6] who used "The Simpson" to teach policy analysis and O'Roark [7] who teaches economics using Superhero cartoons. Other burgeoning utilizations of films in economics are Becker in [8], Dixit in [9], Mateer in [10], Sexton in [11], Mateer and Li in [12], Crisp and Mixon Jr. in [13], Al-Bahrani and Patel in [14], Levey in [15], Al-Bahrani, Holder, and Patel in [16], Cleveland and Holder in [17], and Mateer and Vachris in [18] who used films, short films, episodes of a film, and a movie to teach the basic concepts of economics.…”

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Teaching Economic Crisis and Stock Market Using A Movie

Abbas¹,

Satrio²,

Annisya³

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference of Ethics on Business, Economics, and Social Science (ICEBESS 2018)

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This study describes the evaluation of teaching method that uses a movie as an instructional media to demonstrate a clear concept about the economic crisis and stock market. In this study, the movie watched by the students is movie entitled "The Big Short", a Hollywood movie telling the chronology of Subprime-Mortgage Crisis happened in the United States of America along with everything about stock market and the story of people who benefited from the crisis, which is based on the true story. The evaluation was performed by conducting the 'quasi-experiment' designed with a nonequivalent control group. The result shows that there is a significant different learning output between the control group and the intervention group.

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confidence: 99%

Teaching Economic Crisis and Stock Market Using A Movie

Abbas¹,

Satrio²,

Annisya³

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference of Ethics on Business, Economics, and Social Science (ICEBESS 2018)

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“…Economic educators have had success using TV shows (Gillis & Hall, 2010;Ghent, Grant, & Lesica, 2011;, movies (Mateer, O'Roark, & Holder, 2016;Sexton, 2006;Mateer & Stephenson, 2011), music (Van Horn & Van Horn, 2013Holder Hoffer, Al-Bahrani & Lindahl, 2015;Al-Bahrani, Holder, Patel, & Sheridan, 2017;Hall, Lawson, & Mateer, 2008), social media (Kassens, 2014; and literature (Cleveland, Holder, & O'Roark, 2016;Yetter, 2016;Leet & Houser, 2003;Watts, 1998) to teach economics. While economic educators have challenged themselves to provide new and innovative teaching tools, it is difficult to find current events or material that matches student interest.…”

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Pokémon GO: Applications for the Economics Classroom

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Pokémon GO is a free-to-play, location-based, augmented reality game developed by Niantic for iOS and Android devices. The game draws on the familiarity of Nintendo's Pokémon video games, which led to trading card games, animated television shows and movies, comic books, and toys that grew in popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Users in Pokémon GO explore the real world around them in an attempt to catch 'em all. The game quickly grew to over 25 million active daily users in 2016, making it the biggest mobile game in U.S. history. Given that many college and high school students have played the game, this provides a unique opportunity for instructors to use this viral sensation in the classroom to enhance economics education.

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“…Not to be left out, dystopian stories have been used to show the connection between economics and literature. Cleveland, Holder, and O'Roark (2016) turned to The Hunger Games to illustrate how a series of economic concepts including production possibilities, comparative advantage, the role of institutions, and income inequality, are part of this post-apocalyptic world. Roback (1985), Resch (1997), andHamlen (2000) focus on the dystopian works of Orwell, zeroing in on the role of government and the free market, or lack thereof.…”

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Super-Economics Man! Using Superheroes to Teach Economics

O’Roark

2017

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People the world over are familiar with comic book heroes. These characters have been portrayed on pages, television and movie screens and even in song for decades. Comic storylines change as time marches on keeping them remarkably current, and characters are relaunched regularly so new readers can continually jump into the action. This heretofore untapped genre with extensive character development and complex plots is full of economic content. Using superheroes to illustrate economic concepts expands the educator's tool bag for students in the K-12 space but certainly applies to undergraduates in a variety of classes as well. This paper will use superheroes to discuss several different topics including scarcity, opportunity costs, specialization, public goods, moral hazard, production functions, and utility.

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The economics of The Hunger Games

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Teaching Economic Crisis and Stock Market Using A Movie

Teaching Economic Crisis and Stock Market Using A Movie

Pokémon GO: Applications for the Economics Classroom

Super-Economics Man! Using Superheroes to Teach Economics

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