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The Standard Deviants will move you out of an economic knowledge
recession and into an expansion as they teach you the complex world of
economics. Learn how the economy works on both the micro and macro levels. The
Standard Deviants are the perfect economic advisors to get you back on track.
Includes such topics as: opportunity cost, fixed and variable costs, supply,
demand, production possibilities frontier, efficiency, perfect competition,
utility, total utility and marginal utility. Running time: 1 hr 53 min
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The Standard Deviants: American Government 2
Continuing their unusual review course in civics, the Standard Deviants, a
group of ebullient and youthful performers, forge ahead to explain via skits and
various performance routines the venerable institutions of American democracy.
This video begins with an explanation of the legislative branch, covering its
history, powers, and the procedures by which it operates. The roles played by
the Speaker of the House and other central figures are portrayed with purposely
weird computer graphics and skits (complete with a congressional whip wielding,
of course, a bullwhip). The powers of the president and the executive branch are
also covered in detail, and an in-depth review of the judicial branch and its
workings concludes the lessons. The approach to the material is never solemn and
at times verges on the bizarre, and this won't be to everyone's liking. However,
the academic advisers to this production have ensured that the material itself
is solid, and it should be noted that the attempts at comedy are designed as
mnemonic devices on the principle that something presented in an off-the-wall
manner is easier to remember than the boring lectures that students endure and
forget. --Robert J. McNamara