There’s no business like…monkey business?
Our new izzit.org teaching unit follows Katarina
Rybarikova and her family in Slovakia as they pursue Katarina’s dream of
bringing the Paul Frank brand, with its distinctive monkey logo, to Europe. As
a child growing up in communist controlled Czechoslovakia, she experienced very
little freedom or economic opportunity.
Even after liberation from the Soviet Union and the split into two
separate countries, times were tough. But with the right economic changes,
things are looking up for Katarina and her family!
The DVD is recommended for grades 7-12, and covers a
variety of topics, from Communism and Democracy, to Paternalism and Individual
Responsibility. It includes a bonus interview with the authors of the Fraser
Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World Report, explaining how the index
works and the correlations they’ve discovered between economic freedom and
people’s well-being. It also covers the U.S. decline on the index, and likely
reasons for the change.
