This is the 50th anniversary of the release of the greatest summer movie of all time, Jaws. So, it’s a perfect time to nerd out and take a closer look.
Jaws is my second-favorite movie overall, but I believe it to be a perfectly constructed piece of cinema. It has everything you could ever want—it’s an adventure, it’s scary, it’s funny, it’s a great guy movie, and it’s a hero’s journey in all the right ways—and it is the most exquisitely edited film ever. The pacing could not be better matched to the story it is telling.
But there is one nagging piece of political economy that has always bothered me. And that’s what this episode is about. This is the sixth installment of my series on integrating free market economics (specifically from the Austrian School point of view) with popular film. See the others here.
Let me know in the comments below of other films you’d like to see analyzed in this manner.
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