Title
Dystopia and economics : a guide to surviving everything from the apocalypse to zombies / edited by Charity-Joy Revere Acchiardo and Michelle Albert Vachris.
ISBN
9781138051362 (paperback)
1138051365 (paperback)
9781138051355 (hardcover)
1138051357 (hardcover)
9781315138333 (electronic book)
Published
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 82 pages ; 20 cm.
Call Number
HB171 .D97 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
330
Summary
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. This book provides a user-friendly introduction to economics suitable for a general audience as well as devoted students of the discipline.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Routledge economics and popular culture.
The walking econ : learning economics from The Walking Dead / by Tawni H. Ferrarini
Never a lovely day : the wretched economics of Mad Max : Fury Road / by Michelle Albert Vachris and G. Dirk Mateer
The odds are never in your favor : preventing economic growth in The Hunger Games / by J. Brian O'Roark
The Divergent economics of factions and governing / By Samuel R. Staley
Choice, liberty and repression in A Clockwork Orange / by Wayne Geerling
Last man rules! / by Charity-Joy Revere Acchiardo.
