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Economic principles in The Simpsons

Economic principles in The Simpsons

Dirk Mateer's Econ Media Library

by Dirk Mateer Launch project

A senior lecturer in Economics at Penn State University and author of the book Economics in the Movies, Dirk Mateer has actively exercised his fair use rights to amass a huge collection of clips from popular culture that illustrate principles of economics, ranging from game theory to opportunity cost. Mateer's website offers an impressively diverse, richly annotated "Econ Media Library," which streams embedded clips from Critical Commons. The site has rapidly become an invaluable resource for teachers of economics and one of the largest sub-archives of fairly used media within Critical Commons.