Economix: How Our Economy Works (And Doesn't Work) In Words and Pictures #1

Economix: How Our Economy Works (And Doesn't Work) In Words and Pictures — Abrams ComicArts

Issue: #1

Stimulus plans: good or bad? Free markets: How free are they? Jobs: Can we afford them? Occupy Wall Street... worldwide! Everybody's talking about the economy, but how can we, the people, understand what Wall Street or Washington knows - or say they know? With clear, witty writing and quirky, accessible art, this important and timely graphic novel transforms 'the dismal science' of economics into...

First appearances: Grover Norquist, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Riis, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Thomas Newcomen, Léon Walras, John J. McCloy, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Kenneth Galbraith, Michael Goodwin, Henry Paulson, Paul Volcker, Michael Bruno, Alfred Marshall, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Boehner, Charles Erwin Wilson, James G. Watt, Paul H. O'Neill, Robert McNamara, François Quesnay, William Stanley Jevons, Paul Samuelson, Cyrus McCormick, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Joan Robinson, T. Boone Pickens, George Walbridge Perkins, Lee Iacocca, Edward Chamberlin, John Strachey, David Ricardo, J. P. Morgan Jr., Steven Clark Rockefeller, John Jay, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Anna Louise Strong, William L. Shirer, Richard Warren Sears, Ludwig von Mises, Washington Duke, Adam Smith, Ben Bernanke, John Maynard Keynes, Robert Lucas Jr., Lech Wałęsa, Robert Rubin

Creators: Dan Burr, David Bach, Debra Freiberg, Joel Bakan, Michael Goodwin

Characters: John F. Kennedy, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, Adolf Hitler, George W. Bush, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, Leland Stanford, Philip Danforth Armour, Alan Greenspan, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Friedrich Engels, Republican Elephant, Democratic Donkey, Grover Norquist, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Riis, Milton Friedman