Show and Biz

How is capitalism represented in popular culture today? Are profits seen as a legitimate reward of entrepreneurship? Are thrift and effort still considered a cornerstone of a healthy society? Or is it that inequalities are eliciting scandal and reproach? How is the ecosystem portrayed, vis-a-vis profit seeking companies? Are they irreconcilable, or maybe not? Are there any established trends with respect to the presentation of entrepreneurship, and that complex legal artefact that is the modern limited liability company? These are questions that will be at the core of this book. But they are not examined through the usual theoretical point of references, but looking at TV series produced in 2000-2020. Each chapter of this book is a case studies, covering some of the most popular, successful and engaging TV shows of the last 20 years. And showing how deep economic ideas and biases lie, at the roots of some of our times'' most successful entertainment products.>

Auteur
María Blanco is Associate Professor of Economic History and Institutions at San Pablo-CEU University and Associate Professor at CEU-ILEAD (Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Advanced Development), Spain. She is deputy editor of the European Journal of Political Economy Market Processes. She has taught at the Universidad Panamericana and Universidad del Valle de México, in Mexico City, Mexico. She writes for business newspapers and regularly participates in the media as an economic analyst. She has published three books on liberal thought, feminism and the rule of law.Alberto Mingardi is Professor of the history of political thought at IULM University in Milan, Italy. He is also Director General of the Italian free-market think tank, Istituto Bruno Leoni. He is a Presidential Scholar in Political Theory at Chapman University and an adjunct fellow at the Cato Institute, USA. He blogs at EconLog. He published critical editions of Thomas Hodgskin, Elie Kedourie, Vilfredo Pareto, and Herbert Spencer.