Published in:Universidad del Rosario, Facultad de Economía Documentos de Trabajo ; No. 69
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (24 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.1493000
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Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 1, 2009 erstellt
Description:
May cartoons be considered as a viable and credible source for the study of economics? There is hardly any research on the subject, even though there is a quite significant amount of cartoons with economic content. This suggests that economics (and economists) have not paid enough attention and do not incorporate in their analysis a relevant primary source. The present paper aims to explore the value of using cartoons as a complementary primary source in economic analysis. We present a way of analyzing economic history through cartoons; first, reviewing cartoons which describe particular historical circumstances and second, examining cartoons that represent generic economic situations and are not necessarily linked to a historical period. We chose 17 cartoons, from different cartoonist, especially Colombian cartoonists that may give us an idea of economic matters and economic history