"Economic Idiocracy" is a PDF drawn from the Internet Archive and catalogued under Economics & Business for Undergraduate / College. From the source: The title says it all. This slideshow style film shows how BIG BUSINESS has previously destroyed the United States economy and why it might happen again. This short film is also part of a larger… Slide Collection preserves the upstream link, the original creator credit and the licensing terms; download the file to use it in a classroom, study group or revision plan.
About this presentation
The title says it all. This slideshow style film shows how BIG BUSINESS has previously destroyed the United States economy and why it might happen again. This short film is also part of a larger project entitled HIDING IN PLAIN SITE / THE NEWS MEDIA STORY ON THE ISSUE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Today this same video could play a part in the Occupy movement that is currently taking place around the world.
How to study this deck
Economics slides love graphs. Before accepting any conclusion, identify the axes, the model's assumptions, and the variables held constant. The conclusion follows from the model, not from the world.
Undergraduate viewers should treat this as a scaffolding for deeper reading — the slides outline the territory, but the textbook chapters and primary sources remain the actual content.
Five questions to test your understanding
- What is the single most important claim on the first three slides, and what evidence is offered for it?
- Which slide could you remove without losing the argument? Which slide is load-bearing?
- Where does the deck switch from definitions to applications? Mark that transition.
- What would a student who already disagreed with the conclusion need to see to be convinced?
- Which two slides, if combined, would give the clearest one-slide summary of the whole deck?
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