Economics Course¶
Ferris the Fox is the mascot for the Introduction to Economics textbook. Foxes appear repeatedly in economic folklore — Aesop's "fox and the grapes" is the original case study in cognitive bias, and Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox casts the fox as the thinker who knows many things and resists single-theory explanations. Ferris was chosen because economics rewards exactly that breadth: a good economic thinker holds supply-and-demand, behavioral psychology, game theory, and historical context in the same head and switches between them as needed. The choice is strong because the species symbolism encodes the disciplinary virtue — eclectic, pattern-matching, skeptical of monocausal stories — that the curriculum most wants to develop.
All poses for the Economics Course mascot.
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Neutral
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Welcome
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Tip
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Thinking
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Encouraging
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Warning
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Celebration
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Caution