Economics at the Movies - Four Yorkshiremen and Happiness Economics

There are many resources out there for teaching happiness and welfare. But this class Monty Python clip - The Four Yorkshiremen - does it for me! Idle, Chapman, Palin and Jones are on top form as they descend into ever-greater exaggerations about the deprivations they suffered as children….. “Cardboard Box ... you were lucky”. A hat tip to student James Tozer who flagged this clip up as a tool for teaching welfare!

Unit 4 Macro: African Human Development Report 2012 [15 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Using the Cost-Benefit Principle [30 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Price Discrimination [9 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Monopoly and Economic Welfare [6 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Gross National Happiness in Bhutan [31 Mar 2012]
Economics at the Movies - Foods that Make Billions [15 Jan 2012]
Economics at the Movies - The Joy of Stats [14 Jan 2012]
Economics at the Movies - Monty Python Money Programme Eric Idle Sketch [11 Jan 2012]
Economics at the Movies - Freakonomics [9 Jan 2012]
Economics at the Movies - Too Big to Fail [28 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Sleep, Money, Happiness and Choices! [25 Sep 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Up in Smoke [2 Sep 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Seabiscuit and the Depression [31 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Local Hero - Valuing our heritage [30 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World! [29 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: The Cove - Trade in Dolphins [28 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Castaway Revisited [27 Aug 2011]
Page One - a movie about the New York Times [26 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: A Beautiful Mind [26 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Wayne’s World & Product Placement [26 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Plastic Surgery - Need or Want? [26 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies - The Game of Chicken [18 Jul 2011]
Economics at the Movies - Utility of Decorative Pillows [18 Jul 2011]
Tech & Pop Culture in Teaching Economics [17 Jul 2011]
A2 Micro: Consequences of Price Discrimination [19 May 2011]
AS Micro Revision: Market Power [21 Apr 2011]
RES Essay Competition - Happiness Economics [7 Apr 2011]
Economics at the Movies - Margin Call [23 Jan 2011]
Happiness and Prosperity and the Equation that Links the Two [23 Jan 2011]
Economics at the Movies - The Dark Knight and Game Theory [30 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Bank Run Scene from A Wonderful Life [30 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Wedding Crashers and Free Riders [29 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Our Daily Bread [28 Oct 2010]
A2 Micro: Monopoly Price and Output [28 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Couscous [27 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - The Vanishing Bees [27 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Austin Powers and Inflation [23 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Reggie Perrin’s inebriated speech and economic growth [22 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Hudsucker Proxy and Consumer Demand [21 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Billy Ray Valentine learns commodities [20 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - For the Love of the Game [20 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Goodbye Lenin [20 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - The Damned United and the Principle Agent Problem [19 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Pretty Woman, Consumer and Producer Surplus [19 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - A Boring Economics Teacher! [19 Oct 2010]
Measuring what makes life worthwhile [24 Jun 2010]
Finding new opportunities among the economic wreckage [1 Jun 2010]
AS Economics Revision - Government Failure [18 May 2010]
Explaining comparative advantage [1 Sep 2009]
Happiness (or subjective well-being) in the spotlight [9 Aug 2009]
Revision: Market Structure, Conduct and Performance [22 May 2009]
Tim Harford on behavioural studies [28 Jun 2008]
Two weeks to the RES deadline! [28 Apr 2008]
More to life than GDP? [8 Apr 2008]
Bhutan and Gross National Happiness [26 Mar 2008]
Robert Frank on Income and Happiness [9 Mar 2008]

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