Going Places: Fun and Facts about American Business 

An article about this series called,  “Fun and Facts about American Business: Economic Education and Business Propaganda in an Early Cold War Cartoon Series”, by Caroline Jack, argues how “economic education" is designed to align corporate interests with the core of American identity. Stating, “the ideal of educational value as a conceptual resource both to rationalize their claims for control over the project and to justify the project’s successes and failures.” By examining these cartoons, Jack reveals how mid-century business leaders used the guise of neutral "education" to bypass skepticism and deliver pro-capitalist propaganda directly to schools and factories. The series framed the free-market system not just as an economic choice, but as the essential partner to political liberty, effectively sanitizing industrial history and casting corporate goals like deregulation as universal moral imperatives. Ultimately, Jack demonstrates how this animation series helped construct a "social imagination" that successfully linked personal freedom to corporate prosperity, creating a rhetorical framework for American capitalism that persists in political discourse today.