[Pen-l] Capitalism in Six Westerns by John Ford

[david barkin <d_barkin@xxxxxxxxx>]

I came across this abstract on the ssrn system that I thought might touch the funny bone or the dedicated teacher part of our collective existence -- the paper can be downloaded for free-  The author is from the Complutense University in Madrid.

David Barkin
Mexico

Capitalism in Six Westerns by John Ford
Rodríguez Braun, Carlos
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1153578
Abstract:     
The economic and institutional analysis of capitalism can be illustrated through John Ford's westerns. This article focuses on six classics by Ford that show the move toward modern order, the creation of a new society and the rule of law. Economic features are pervading, from property rights and contracts to markets, money and trade. Ford is usually depicted as a simple radical critic of capitalism, but his views prove to be more subtle, and present the ingredients of capitalism in a pre-political world, a world with private settlers aiming at building new communities in a hostile environment, frequently with no political institutions apart from the army, and where civil or pre-civil society dominated.

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