Filmonomics

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What could movies as diverse as The Last Samurai, Cléo 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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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. Cléo from 5 to 7: A feminine Homo Economicus? 8. Mirch Masala and Manthan: the power of women's 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