THE HARRY POTTER NOVELS MAY SEEM LIKE A STRANGE PERSPECTIVE FROM WHICH TO VIEW ECONOMICS. IN A REALM FILLED WITH MAGIC, WE MIGHT EXPECT THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS THAT WE MUGGLES FACE TO DISAPPEAR IN A PUFF OF SMOKE.
Harry Potter + Economics
3 min readAug 3, 2020
Smithsonian Associates Science & Technology Interview Series…
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Inside Science Series, I’m Paul Vogelzang and this is episode #467.
As part of our Smithsonian Associates Inside Science & Technology series, we are joined today by author, professor, and superhero educator, Dr. J. Brian O’ Roark. Dr. O’Roark is a superhero educator, professor of economics, a tough subject to teach, known as the dismal science. Like many of you, I took my fair share of economics classes, and had I been offered a class like this…well, let’s…
