This semester, the Economics Department is screening a series of movies with themes related to Economics. Films are open to both students and faculty. All films will be screened in Chafee 275 at 6:00pm. Below is a tentative schedule of the films.

Sept.19, Moneyball, directed by Bennett Miller, starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill

Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated statistical analysis to acquire new players. The A’s are good again this year!

October 3, The Young Karl Marx, directed by Raoul Peck, in English and German with English sub-titles.

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who investigated the horrid conditions of the British working-class. Together, between censorship, police repression, and political upheavals, they grapple for leadership of the labor movement. A buddy movie about communism!

November 7, The Insider, directed by Michael Mann, starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a “60 Minutes” expose on Big Tobacco. Neither the tobacco companies nor the corporate media want the truth out. The Insider is an intense story of personal integrity and risk.

November 28, The Big Short, directed by Adam Mackay, starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale.

Based on the book by Michael Lewis, the true story of a handful of investors who bet against the US mortgage market in 2006-7. They discovered that the US mortgage backed securities market was a bubble about to burst, and they invested accordingly. What they didn’t initially know was how structurally flawed the MBS system was, the level of corruption in the market…and the impact on the average person when the bubble burst.

Coordinated by Profs. Mead (acmead@uri.edu) and McIntyre (mcintyre@uri.edu)