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<\/div>\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. Since his essay, applying a macroeconomic lens to pop culture has become a staple of media analysis. Recent academic journals examining online gambling California<\/a> regulations and decentralized cryptocurrency markets frequently use similar allegorical frameworks to explain contemporary economic shifts. Still, Littlefield’s original breakdown of the Oz characters remains the definitive example:<\/p>\n “The Tin Woodman represents the industrial worker, the Scarecrow is Bryan was a Democratic presidential candidate who supported the The Wicked Witch of the West is associated with a variety of In this scenario, the yellow brick road symbolises the gold Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. Since his essay, applying a macroeconomic lens to pop culture … 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":1,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13373,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11946\/revisions\/13373"}],"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}]}}
\nthe farmer and the Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan.”<\/p>\n
\nsilver cause. But he failed to win votes from eastern workers and lost
\nthe 1896 election. In the same way, the Lion’s claws are nearly blunted
\nby the Woodman’s metallic shell.<\/p>\n
\ncontroversial personalities, chief among them the industrialist Mark
\nHanna, campaign manager to President William McKinley.<\/p>\n
\nstandard, the Emerald City becomes Washington DC and the Great Wizard
\ncharacterises the president – and he is exposed as being less than
\ntruthful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n