Teaching Macroeconomic Principles Using Animated Cartoons

R. Andrew Luccasen, Michael Hammock and M. Kathleen Thomas

The American Economist, 2011, vol. 56, issue 1, 38-47

Abstract: Multimedia materials are underused and powerful tools for teaching economics. We present examples from cartoons that can be used to illustrate important principles in an introductory macroeconomics class. Clips from Beavis and Butthead, Duck Tales, Futurama, and The Simpsons are used to explain the velocity of money, inflation and long-run monetary policy, interest, future and present value, household production and mismeasurement of GDP, and structural unemployment.

Keywords: active learning; pedagogy; visual media; macroeconomic principles; cartoons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/056943451105600106

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