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Economic Lessons from Literature-The Verger and Harrison Bergeron

Economic Lessons from Literature-The Verger and Harrison Bergeron

Released Friday, 3rd December 2021
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Economic Lessons from Literature-The Verger and Harrison Bergeron

Economic Lessons from Literature-The Verger and Harrison Bergeron

Economic Lessons from Literature-The Verger and Harrison Bergeron

Economic Lessons from Literature-The Verger and Harrison Bergeron

Friday, 3rd December 2021
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In the past year, two short stories have come to Ron and Ed's attention that provide some economic insights: Somerset Maugham's The Verger and Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron. In The Verger, a church employee is fired even though he does his work quite satisfactorily. Bergeron is a cautionary tale of the notion of equity - equality of outcome.

Links can be found here if you want to read them beforehand:* The Verger - https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Maugham_The_Verger_0.pdf* Harrison Bergeron - https://www.iwp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Harrison-Bergeron.pdf

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