1.) Your avatar’s comments regarding the proper importance Menger, while appropriate for Austrian Econ, seem a bit heavy-handed to the uninitiated, methinks, but it still works regardless.
2.) I think after Menger priases Smith, his avatar should grow a little in the next panel, perhaps with a smiley face above it to indicate how Smith might better understand himself (in this “universe”) in the context of other economic figures.
Regarding the 2nd point, I think you could do an entire series of these where various econ & political figures argue accordingly to exaggerated, parodied, or homaged avatars of themselves. It would be great to see such a thing occur between Marx, Smith, Menger etc.
Also, great cameos. I liked the one by Freud, who shows you can still be mostly wrong about everything you write about & still have good comedic timing
I think Rothbard could show up in a future parody segment of his avatar in front of a blackboard trying to “modernize” an explanation of the levels of intervention (Chapter 2 of P&M ), with a hit or miss usage of modern slang.
Probably would work better as animation, although the slides would suffice for the amount of labor (ha ha! nevermind, it’s late…) required for such an execution
I find your Human Action Comics very funny and enlightening. I think that if someone has a drive to learn about economic theory, your stuff is spot on.
I do not however think this is in the scope that would be teachable to high school students and the like. It can seem complicated. Though, I do fear that it is as simplified as it will get. I loved it, and i will be referring it to everyone who asks me. Also, giving you the proper credit, I will be using it in my many debates about economics with friends.
It depends greatly upon the high school student’s talent and inclinations. And what sort of schooling the student has had. There are some “high schools” here in Chicago that could barely be considered remedial grammar schools. Trying to teach any but the brightest and most self-motivated students from such a school the elements of sound economics would be tilting at windmills.
David Gordon’s book, Introduction to Economic Reasoning, was quite consciously pitched at high-schoolers. I have some younger cousins who are all twentysomethings now, but I think they all would have been able to make a go of Gordon’s book in their high-school days. It’s just that their inclinations were so frivolous at that age that they wouldn’t have thought of making the attempt.
If you think that Gordon’s book is appropriately pitched for academically competent high-schoolers, then Lilburne’s cartoon version of Austrian Econ should be a cinch. If.
