Show and Biz
The market economy in TV series and popular culture (2000-2020)
Published on 23. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-1-5013-9381-5 (ISBN)
Description
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-a-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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
Razor-sharp analyses uncover the economic and political premises embedded in some of the most popular TV programs of the past two decades. This volume can significantly change the way we look at television-and economics. * Jo Ann Cavallo, Professor of Italian and Italian Department Chair at Columbia University, USA * There is a lot written about the cultural biases of TV and its complex relationship to entrepreneurial capitalism, but rarely in as broad-reaching, comprehensive, and well-documented a manner as in this collection. Show and Biz offers scholars in many fields exciting new perspectives about a subject of considerable cultural importance and demonstrable relevance. * Alan Kahan, Universite de Paris-Saclay, France * Popular culture, television, and good economics are not often enough considered together. Show and Biz? is a breakthrough work which helps to remedy this longstanding gap. It is highly readable and entertaining as well as instructive. * Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University, USA * This edited volume of fifteen chapters covering fourteen shows is a much-needed update to the literature on economics and popular culture. It would be a welcome addition for the classroom and for the general reader. * The Independent Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5013-9381-5 (9781501393815)
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Maria Blanco | Alberto Mingardi
Show and Biz
The Market Economy in Tv Series and Popular Culture (2000-2020)
E-Book
06/2023
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic USA
€32.99
Available for download
Maria Blanco | Alberto Mingardi
Show and Biz
The Market Economy in Tv Series and Popular Culture (2000-2020)
E-Book
06/2023
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic USA
€32.99
Available for download
Persons
Maria 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).
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).
Content
Dedication
Preface
Maria 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 Rodriguez 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: Mexico: 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
Preface
Maria 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 Rodriguez 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: Mexico: 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