The WSJ has the deets on this year’s Dallas Fed High School Essay Contest. Last year’s challenge was to write about the pros and cons of globalization. This year, students are to write about economic lessons in movies. Not the economics of making movies, mind you, but the principles and concepts and the like that shape plot, character, and motive. I’m not eligible, but if I were, I’d pen an argument about the importance of the service class as illustrated in the Robin Williams’ vehicle Club Paradise. Or maybe health care econ in Patch Adams. Or education in Good Will Hunting. Wow. Who knew Williams was so macro?