Teaching Econoimc Concepts Using American Novels

• 영문명: Teaching Econoimc Concepts Using American Novels: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: Joseph Yosup Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제19집 3호, 185~206쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.12.09

영문 초록

This article demonstrates how literature can portray different economic concepts and be used to teach such concepts in undergraduate economics and financial engineering courses. The authors examine John Steinbeck’s novels, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden in light of some economic concepts such as property rights, mass production, specialization, futures trading, and distribution of wealth. The authors argue that instructors can use novels to teach their students about the abovementioned economic concepts and students can benefit from reading novels and understand economic concepts in literature. The authors also present quantitative nalysis usin statistical methods such as Box and Whisker plot, Shapiro-Wilk test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and one-sample t-test by using R as a way for teachers to enable their students to quantify economic concepts from literature.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Property Rights during the Reconstruction in East of Eden

III. Mass Production, Specialization and Futures Trading in East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath

IV. Unequal Distribution of Wealth in The Grapes of Wrath

V. Quantitative Analysis of Futures Trading in East of Eden

키워드

property rights mass production specialization futures trading distribution of wealth