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Broadway Musicals are ideal for teaching about economics. The songs in musicals tell stories, and many relate to economic concepts. In this book, over 100 songs are analysed for what they can teach us about opportunity cost, supply and demand, monetary policy and numerous other core economic concepts.
List of contents
Introduction, 1776, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Annie, Annie Get Your Gun, Anyone Can Whistle, Avenue Q, Beauty and the Beast, Big Fish, Billy Elliot, Bonnie and Clyde, Cabaret, Candide, Carousel, Chicago, Cinderella, Closer than Ever, Curtains the Musical, Dames at Sea, Dear World, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Do I Hear a Waltz?, Evita, Fiddler on the Roof, Frozen, Follies, Fun Home, Grease, Gypsy, Hamilton, Hands on a Hardbody, Happy End, Heathers the Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hello Dolly, Honeymoon in Vegas, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, I Can Get it For You Wholesale, If/Then, In the Heights, Inside U.S.A., Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Kinky Boots, Kiss Me Kate, La La Land, Legally Blonde, Les Misérables, Little Shop of Horrors, Made in Dagenham, Mamma Mia, Mary Poppins, Matilda, Moana, Oliver!, On the Twentieth Century, Once On This Island, One Man, Two Guvnors, Pacific Overtures, Phantom of the Opera, Pippin, Ragtime, Rent, School of Rock, She Loves Me, Shrek the Musical, Something Rotten, Sunday in the Park with George, Sunny Afternoon, Sunset Boulevard, Tenderloin, The Addams Family, The Bridges of Madison County, The Fix, The Full Monty, The Last Five Years, The Last Ship, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, The Music Man, The Pajama Game, The Rothschilds, The Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Tovarich, Urinetown, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Song Reference Table, References
About the author
Matthew C. Rousu is Professor of Economics at Susquehanna University, USA. He is a prolific researcher and frequently contributes to or is quoted by news outlets, including USA Today, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Forbes.
Summary
Broadway Musicals are ideal for teaching about economics. The songs in musicals tell stories, and many relate to economic concepts. In this book, over 100 songs are analysed for what they can teach us about opportunity cost, supply and demand, monetary policy and numerous other core economic concepts.
