The Economics of The Simpsons Movie

The Simpsons has excelled at caricaturing society in a way that made us all take a pensive look in the mirror.  The bad guys in The Simpsons Movie were mostly power-tripping/incompetent government officials, which makes it a great tool for spreading the idea of libertarianism.
Check out S.M. Oliva's review of it over at LewRockwell.com.

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