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Kenny Chesney, "Rich and Miserable"

Useful for opportunity cost, diminishing returns to income

MacroeconomicsWayne GeerlingAugust 8, 2024American dream, GDP, competition, income inequality, work-life balance

Van Morrison, Lean on Me

Useful for discussing specialization, comparative advantage and division of labor.

AP ECON / FoundationsBrian ORoarkJanuary 17, 2023specialization, comparative advantage, division of labor

California Punched Me in the Eye

Useful for discussing taxes, public finance and personal finance.

Macroeconomics, Personal FinanceBrian ORoarkJanuary 12, 2023taxes, public finance

Bar Tzabary, "Johnny"

Useful for status quo bias, risk-averse behaviour.

MicroeconomicsWayne GeerlingAugust 26, 2021

Elf's Lament - Bare Naked Ladies

Useful for labor markets and supply curves.

MicroeconomicsBrian ORoarkAugust 26, 2021derived demand, opportunity cost, labor markets, union

Forget You

Useful for common goods and cost benefit analysis.

Microeconomics, Personal FinanceBrian ORoarkMay 3, 2021common good, free rider, cost benefit, demand and supply, public goods, scarcity, tradeoffs

Paperback Writer

Useful for labor markets and competition.

Microeconomics, Electives, Labor/TradeBrian ORoarkMay 3, 2021competition, cost benefit, labor markets

We Can Work It Out

Useful for sunk costs.

MicroeconomicsBrian ORoarkMay 3, 2021sunk costs, dimin, cost benefit

Billionaire - by Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars

Useful for income inequality and charity.

Electives, Macroeconomics, Labor/TradeBrian ORoarkMarch 31, 2021wealth, charity, economic growth

Alain Souchon, "Golden Parachute"

Useful for the financial crisis and principal-agent problem.

MacroeconomicsWayne GeerlingDecember 23, 2020financial crisis, great recession, golden parachute, subprime mortgage crisis, principal-agent problem, moral hazard, France

BTS, "I Need U"

Useful for loss aversion and sunk costs.

MicroeconomicsWayne GeerlingDecember 21, 2020addiction, inelastic demand, sunk costs, loss aversion, decision making, irrationality, rationality, K-pop

Jennie, "Solo"

Useful for rational decisions.

MicroeconomicsWayne GeerlingDecember 20, 2020rational decision making, selfish, marginal cost, marginal benefit, sunk cost fallacy, K-pop