J Brian O'Roark

Why Superman Doesn't Take Over the World

What Superheroes Can Tell Us about Economics

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do some superheroes have day jobs? Why do villains keep trying even though they almost never win? Why don't heroes simply take over the world? With brilliant deadpan humour, comic aficionado professor J. Brian O'Roark uses the tools of economics to explain superheroes, and the world of superheroes to explain economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 144mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9780198829478
• ISBN-10: 0198829477
• Artikelnr.: 54314393

Autorenporträt

Brian O'Roark is a University Professor of Economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, and is a co-author of Essentials of Economics (with Lee Coppock and Dirk Mateer, W.W. Norton, 2016) and editor of Superheroes and Economics (Routledge, forthcoming). He is on the board of directors for the Journal of Economics Teaching and serves in the role of associate editor. In 2014, Brian was given the Undergraduate Teaching Innovation Award by the Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration and in 2016 he received the President's Award for Outstanding Teaching at RMU.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Everyone loves a good backstory, even economists
2: Who is that masked man?
3: Keep your friends close, or why do superheroes team up?
4: But your enemies closer: Why do superheroes fight each other?
5: Don't give up your day job: Why do superheroes go to work?
6: Give up already! When superheroes are fighting crime, who wants to be a criminal?
7: Who's going to clean up this mess?
8: Where do they get those wonderful toys?
9: Why don't superheroes take over the world?
10: Who is the greatest of them all?