Freedom Road
This fictional animal shows that no economic system is perfect.
What is a unicorn?
The University of Michigan study showed that lottery winners had this strange trait in common.
What is they had a higher depression rate than the general population?
This nihilist author drove an ambulance in WWI, struggled with drunkenness, and sadly ended his own life with a shotgun blast.
Who was Ernest Hemingway?
Margot, Wilson, and Francis
What is "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber?"
Roger Scruton says this has become the focus of modern art.
What is making a statement by shocking the audience?
The opposite of free enterprise, when the state controls everything.
What is statism?
What is the name of the paradox which states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within nations, but over time happiness does not trend upward in correspondence with income growth.
What is the Easterlin Paradox?
This author of Good Country People died at the young age of 39 from complications related to Lupus.
Who was Flannery O'Connor?
A water buffalo, rifle, and an affair
This is the reason modern art is so boring.
What is the shock effect wears off after one use?
Arthur Brook's book advocates this economic system also known as capitalism.
What is free enterprise?
The name psychologists have given to the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes
What is the hedonistic treadmill?
"Our nada, who art in nada, nada be thy name..."
What is "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"?
Manley
What is "Good Country People?"
Modern art actually mocks this.
What is beauty?
In 1848 this German author (along with Karl Marx) wrote the Communist Manifesto.
Who is Friedrich Engles?
What is meritorious fairness?
A fake Bible, a glass eye, and a prosthetic leg
What is "Good Country People?"
Manley's obsession with the grotesque and irrational is an example of this style of writing.
What is the Southern Gothic style of writing?
In 1917 French painter Marcel Duchamp offered this object as "art."
What is a urinal?
Brooks calls this the ineptitude of individuals who have become dependent upon the state.
What is learned helplessness?
Even though some people worked very hard and others not at all, the teacher gave everyone a "C." This kind of fairness is named by Arthur Brooks.
What is redistributive fairness?
Hulga's real first name.
What is Joy?
Only moments after his short happy life has begun it is ended when this happens to Francis Macomber.
What is he is shot by his wife Margot?
Composed in 1952, John Cage's musical number 4'33" features three movements where the instrumentalists do this.
What is not play their instruments or sit in silence?