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Greed Is Good Was a Movie Villain's Line, and Other Myths About Capitalism Seven popular claims about capitalism, from greed to zero-sum trade, tested against Adam Smith, a 1987 movie and the long record of market economies. It's a Wonderful Life Is the Most Conservative Film Hollywood Ever Made Capra's 1946 classic celebrates family, thrift, faith and local institutions, and its villain wants to own everything. It is the conservative Christmas film. Movies That Love America Still Sell Tickets, and Hollywood Keeps Forgetting Films that honour service, faith and country keep drawing huge crowds while the industry calls each hit a fluke. An audience waits for anyone who will serve it. Made for Beijing, How the Chinese Market Changed Hollywood Scripts Studios chasing the Chinese box office edited villains, characters and flags to please censors, and American audiences pay for it. Here is what studios owe us. When Hollywood Enlisted, the Studios and Stars Who Went to War in 1942 After Pearl Harbor the film industry put stars in uniform and studios to work for the war, a model of patriotic culture that today's industry could learn from.