How Capitalism Allowed Sgt. Pepper and His Band to Play
The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a breakthrough, off the charts, paradigm shifting event that fundamentally reshaped popular music. This presentation discusses the reasons why and the factors that led to its creation. This presentation was the foundation stone for my book, The Beatles and Economics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Making of a Culture Revolution.
The Divergent Economics of Factions and Governing
Veronica Roth's science fiction trilogy Divergent provides a surprising number of insights into how communities are organized and how politics operates in a world of extreme scarcity. This presentation formed the basis for a chapter I wrote appearing in the book Dystopia and Economics: A Guide to Surviving Everything from the Apocalypse to Zombies.
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