Economics film

Economics film is a film genre concerned with themes and topics that fall broadly the umbrella of economics, such as business, investing, finance and capitalism. Economics films often touch upon themes that occur in the everyday world of business or in the economy in a general sense. Economics films have often been utilised to focus on economic, financial, political, social and philosophical issues.

Common subject matter involving economic films are diverse. The genre often explores the essential themes related to economics such as money, wealth, materialism, greed, profiteering, power, corporatism, economic inequality, corporate criticism, anti-corporate activism, corporate corruption, and dishonesty.

The genre is also characterized by references to famous real life and fictional businesspeople such as William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane), Howard Hughes (The Aviator), and Gordon Gekko (Wall Street). Though economic films are socially conscious and focused on many aspects related to the business world, many other films are focused on extreme wealth, lavishness, self-indulgence, materialistic, and luxurious subject matter such as having braggadocios about high-end luxury goods, cars, wine, houses, and expensive champagne.

History

The earliest economics film is considered to be Michael Polanyi's "Unemployment and Money. The Principles Involved". The film consisted entirely of animation and voiceover. The film is about Keynesian economics, going into detail about currency in circulation and trade cycles. While technically this film is considered an educational film it laid the foundation that economic themes and education could gain widespread popularity. From this film, directors were inspired to create films that directly educated viewers about economics, and also films that used economic themes in a more creative way to appeal to broader society [1]

List
Main article: List of economics films

See also

References
  1. Biro, Gabor (30 June 2020). "Michale Polanyi's Neutral Keynesianism and the First Economics Film, 1933 to 1945". Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 42 (3): 335–356. Retrieved 6 April 2022.


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