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- With great spunk and large doses of humor, Boom Bust Boom presents a hard-edged critique of neoclassical economics and its connection to illusion and irrelevance to the lives of ordinary people. Terry Jones of Monty Python fame serves as host for this hard-edged assessment of what he calls "the Achilles heel of the economy."
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Mar 11, 2016 · In a fascinating sequence that could be expanded into a feature-length documentary of its own, Jones explores the research of Laurie Santos, a psychology professor who has found parallels between the behavior of monkeys and humans in terms of their shared irrationality.
Mar 8, 2016 · It’s a film with famous economists — some living, some dead, played by puppets — historians and psychologists, all explaining the human nature that sets us up for the cycles capitalism lives through — boom, “euphoria” driven bust, boom again. And John Cusack.
Mar 10, 2016 · “Boom Bust Boom” explores the economic collapse of 2008 and uses it to investigate past financial panics and depressions. Nobel Prize winners, academics and economists are interviewed, and...
- Ken Jaworowski
- Bill Jones, Terry Jones, Ben Timlett
Summaries. Terry Jones guides us through the history and the nature of the economic boom-bust cycle and why people repeatedly ignore it to their sorrow. Terry Jones presents Boom Bust Boom. The result of a meeting between writer, director, historian and Python Terry Jones and economics professor and entrepreneur Theo Kocken.
Running time. 70 minutes. Boom Bust Boom is a documentary about mankind's history of speculative bubbles. It was written, directed, and presented by former Monty Python member Terry Jones in his final film appearance before his death in 2020. It was released in 2016.
Mar 8, 2016 · Looking at historic bubbles that burst (from the 1630s ‘ Tulip Mania to 1929’s Depression-launching crash), the film lets economists like Paul Krugman and Nobel-winner Daniel Kahneman explain...
What you will—and won't—find in this movie. Parents need to know that Boom Bust Boom is an entertaining (if perhaps somewhat oversimplified) trip through economic history, featuring Monty Python veteran Terry Jones explaining the 2008 financial crisis, as well as several other economic boom-bust cycles in the past several centuries. Jones ...
