Filmonomics: Economists Discuss the Silver Screen [Hardcover]

Section 1: Money and happiness?1. Citizen Kane and the morality of tycoons 2. Wall Street versus Des Hommes et des Dieux: On greed and social responsibility 3. Farinelli and the reasons for the rise and fall of castrati?4. Crazy Rich Asians: A Singapore NEG story??Section 2: Intergenerational transfers and family affairs 5. Trading places and equality of opportunity?6. Narayama, a spaceship?Section 3: Women in society?7. Cl?o from 5 to 7: A feminine Homo Economicus??8. Mirch Masala and Manthan: the power of womens collective action in challenging (orthodox economic theory and) local authority?9. Difret and the way to challenge male authority?Section 4: Adapting to social changes?10. The Last Samurai and the struggle for the heart of a discipline?11. The individual, the state, and economics in Indian films: A fifty-year transition?12. Protecting society in A Clockwork Orange?13. The Purple Rose of Cairo and the foundations of rationality?Section 5: Individualism, cooperation, and other behavioral patterns?14. The strange games of Dr. Strangelove?15. Transport and economic development in Once upon a Time in the West?16. The philosophy behind The Fountainhead?17. Stopping a bank run in It's a Wonderful Life?18. The Hateful Eight: Bounty hunting, spatial competition, and persuasion?Section 6: Winner of the Filmonomics Young Author Award?19. Garm Hava: The Economics of discrimination and other grim tales?20.? Coda - Algorithmic Cinema

What could movies as diverse as The Last Samurai, Cl?o from 5 to 7, or Dr. Strangelove have in common? Filmonomics has a simple yet intriguing answer: economics as the main driving force of the plot or as the main motivation of the characters actions.

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