The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland holds an annual essay contest for high school juniors and seniors on a set topic with some economics component. Last year, they were asked to outline the economic concepts as explained in their favourite movie. The winning essay (pdf file) was "Money and Banking in the Movie Mary Poppins," by Anna Dev of Shaker Heights High School.
Other winning entries include "Economic Principles in Far and Away," "The Must-have Christmas Toy: A Look at the Economic Problem Posed in the Movie Jingle All the Way," and "The Lord of the Rings: An Epic Tale of Supply and Demand."
Don't see any Marxist analyses amongst this lot. Where's "Primitive Accumulation and the Generation of Surplus Value in Finding Nemo"?
Kids today, eh?
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