{"id":11946,"date":"2010-05-18T15:21:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T13:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2677"},"modified":"2010-05-18T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T13:21:24","slug":"the-yellow-brick-road-as-the-gold-standard-the-wizard-of-oz-as-economic-fable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/the-yellow-brick-road-as-the-gold-standard-the-wizard-of-oz-as-economic-fable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yellow Brick Road as the Gold Standard: The Wizard of Oz as Economic Fable"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe Wizard of Oz as economic fable?
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\nHere is a piece on the economic interpretation of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 vision, brought to the masses through the 1939 Judy Garland film, and brought to the world’s understanding in 1964 by high school teacher Henry Littlefield:<\/p>\n

\n\t“The Tin Woodman represents the industrial worker, the Scarecrow is
\n\tthe farmer and the Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan.”<\/p>\n

\n\tBryan was a Democratic presidential candidate who supported the
\n\tsilver cause. But he failed to win votes from eastern workers and lost
\n\tthe 1896 election. In the same way, the Lion’s claws are nearly blunted
\n\tby the Woodman’s metallic shell.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Wicked Witch of the West is associated with a variety of
\n\tcontroversial personalities, chief among them the industrialist Mark
\n\tHanna, campaign manager to President William McKinley.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIn this scenario, the yellow brick road symbolises the gold
\n\tstandard, the Emerald City becomes Washington DC and the Great Wizard
\n\tcharacterises the president – and he is exposed as being less than
\n\ttruthful.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Wizard of Oz as economic fable? Here is a piece on the economic interpretation of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 vision, brought to the masses through the 1939 Judy Garland film, and brought to the world’s understanding in 1964 by high school teacher Henry Littlefield: “The Tin Woodman represents the industrial worker, the Scarecrow is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}