1st Edition
Dystopia and Economics A Guide to Surviving Everything from the Apocalypse to Zombies
1. Introduction Charity-Joy Acchiardo & Michelle Albert Vachris
2. Divergent Economics: The Divergent series (2014-2016) Samuel R. Staley
3. "That’s mine! - Property rights among the Walking Dead": The Walking Dead (2010- ongoing) Tawni H. Ferrarini
4. "Last Man on Earth Rules!": The Last Man on Earth (2015- ongoing) Charity-Joy Acchiardo
5. Economics in the Hunger Games: The Hunger Games (2012-2015) Brian O’Roark
6. Mad Max: Traveling the Fury Road to Learn Economics: Mad Max Fury Road (2015) G. Dirk Mateer and Michelle Albert Vachris
7. "What’s in it for the Hippo?": Elysium (2013) Theo Shamoun
8. Choice, Liberty, and Repression in A Clockwork Orange: A Clockwork Orange (1962/1971) Wayne Geerling
Biography
Charity-Joy Revere Acchiardo is a Lecturer of Economics at the University of Arizona. She is a frequent speaker at teaching workshops across North America and Europe where she shares tips for making economics come alive for students. Her research has been published in leading economic education journals and she serves on the advisory board for the Journal of Economics Teaching.
Michelle Albert Vachris is Professor of Management, Business, and Economics at Virginia Wesleyan University. Before arriving at VWU she taught economics at Christopher Newport University where she holds the rank of Professor Emerita and worked as an economist with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Her publications include articles and book chapters on Public Choice economics, teaching pedagogy and economics in literature.
