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Cartoons and economics: general analysis based on colombian economic cartoons
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Villaveces-Niño, Marta-Juanita
Rodríguez Lesmes, Paul Andrés
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2009
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Universidad del Rosario
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Abstract
May cartoons be considered as a viable and credible source for the study of economics? There is hardly any research on the subject, even though there is a quite significant amount of cartoons with economic content. This suggests that economics (and economists) have not paid enough attention and do not incorporate in their analysis a relevant primary source. The present paper aims to explore the value of using cartoons as a complementary primary source in economic analysis. We present a way of analyzing economic history through cartoons; first, reviewing cartoons which describe particular historical circumstances and second, examining cartoons that represent generic economic situations and are not necessarily linked to a historical period. We choose 17 cartoons, from different cartoonist, especially Colombian cartoonists that may give us an idea of economic matters and economic history.
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Cartoons , economic history , economic cartoon , Colombia
