Show and Biz

The market economy in TV series and popular culture (2000-2020)

María Blanco, Direttore Generale Alberto Mingardi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-9381-5 (ISBN)

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How is capitalism represented in popular culture today? Are profits seen as a legitimate reward of entrepreneurship? Are thrift and effort still considered a cornerstone of a healthy society? Or is it that inequalities are eliciting scandal and reproach? How is the ecosystem portrayed, vis-à-vis profit seeking companies? Are they irreconcilable, or maybe not? Are there any established trends with respect to the presentation of entrepreneurship, and that complex legal artefact that is the modern limited liability company?

These are questions that will be at the core of this book. But they are not examined through the usual theoretical point of references, but looking at TV series produced in 2000-2020.

Each chapter of this book is a case studies, covering some of the most popular, successful and engaging TV shows of the last 20 years. And showing how deep economic ideas and biases lie, at the roots of some of our times’ most successful entertainment products.

María Blanco is Associate Professor of Economic History and Institutions at Universidad San Pablo-CEU in Madrid, Spain. Alberto Mingardi is Associate Professor of the history of political thought at IULM University in Milan, Italy. He is also Director General of Istituto Bruno Leoni and a Presidential Scholar in Political Theory at Chapman University (Orange, Ca).

Dedication

Preface
María Blanco (Universidad CEU-San Pablo, Spain) and Alberto Mingardi (IULM University, Italy)

1. Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise in the Gilmore Girls
Nur Baysal (University of St Andrews, UK)
2. Supplies, Slaves, and Sex: Firefly and the Ethical Frontiers of Entrepreneurship
Sarah Skwire (LibertyFund, USA)
3. Entrepreneurship and the Market Economy in The Wire: Stringer’s Ill-fated Second Chance
Stefano Adamo (University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
4. Growing Up with the Country: Deadwood and the Business of America
Michael Valdez Moses (Chapman University, USA)
5. The Bourgeois Virtues in Deadwood: Challenging American Ideology
Bart J. Wilson, Nicholas A. Callen, Jan Osborn, Max Schartz, Colin White (Chapman University, USA)
6. Mad Men: An Anti-capitalistic Ode to the Present
Luigi Marco Bassani (University of Milan, Italy)
7. Gossip Girl: The Business of Being Famous
Manuel Santos Redondo (Universidad Complutense, Spain)
8. Looking Into the Jaws of Capitalism: Shark Tank and Economic Theory
Paul A. Cantor (University of Virginia, USA)
9. Parks and Recreation: Mouse Rat, Snake Juice, and the Cones of Dunshire
Dylan Pahman (Acton Institute, USA)
10. The Newsroom
Carlos Rodríguez Braun (Universidad Complutense, Spain)
11. Clueless Innovators and Boring Managers: Popular Perceptions of Business in Halt and Catch Fire
Nikolai Wenzel (Fayetteville State University, USA)
12. StartUp on TV
Irene Correas Sosa (Universidad CEU-San Pablo, Spain)
13. Narcos: México: Drugs, Public Opinion, Venezuela, and “Neoliberalism”
Fernando Claro
14. A Tale of Two Villains: Finance and the State in the TV series Billions
Carlo Amenta (University of Palermo, Italy)
15. Inequalities at the End of the World: Snowpiercer, Entrepreneurship and Disorder
Alberto Mingardi (IULM University, Italy)

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2025
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-5013-9381-2 / 1501393812
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-9381-5 / 9781501393815
Zustand	Neuware