International Perspectives on Economics.
I guess they vary a lot? ;-) The following is a good representation of money/economy is seen in several countries, and hilarious too:

TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
You retire on the income.

CHINESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim full employment, high bovine
productivity and arrest anyone
reporting the actual numbers.

INDIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You worship them.

PAKISTAN ECONOMICS
You don't have any cows.
You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.
You ask the US for financial aid,
China for military aid,
Britain for warplanes,
Italy for machines,
Germany for technology,
France for submarines,
Switzerland for loans,
Russia for drugs and
Japan for equipment.
You buy the cows with all this and claim of
exploitation by the world.

AMERICAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You sell one and force the other to produce the
milk of four cows.
You profess surprise when the cow drops dead.
You put the blame on some nation with cows &
naturally that nation will be a danger to mankind.
You wage a war to save the world and grab the cows.

FRENCH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.

GERMAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You reengineer them so that they live for 100 years,
eat once a month and milk themselves.

BRITISH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
They are both mad.

ITALIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You don't know where they are.
You break for lunch.

SWISS ECONOMICS
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
You charge others for storing them.

JAPANESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You redesign them so that they are one-tenth the
size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowkimon
and market them world wide.

RUSSIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 17 cows.
You give up counting and open another bottle of vodka.

The following were comments on Ecademy in response to my post:
MALAYSIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You slaughter one for Hari Raya Puasa and
the other for Hari Raya Haji. Just before that, both
the cows were wandering along the PLUS Highways.

POP MUSIC Economics
You have sheep
You dress them as cows, teach them to behave like cows, teach them to moo like cows
You milk the public.

AFRICAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows
The west lends you a lot of money to buy new cows
Promising to buy the milk
They also lend money to your neighbour to buy cows
Price of milk drops, you can not sell enough milk to pay debt.
So you decide to make butter to sell to the west which is more profitable.
To protect jobs and profits in the west they apply 300% import tax!
The west lends you more money to buy pigs and off we go again.

Then there's this extremely funny comparison between how differently we see our international problems:

If a worldwide survey was conducted by the UN on the question of:

Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"

The survey result would be:

? Africa: They didn't know what "food" meant.

? Eastern Europe: They didn't know what "honest" meant.

? Western Europe: They didn't know what "shortage" meant.

? China: They didn't know what "opinion" meant.

? Middle East: They didn't know what "solution" meant.

? South America: They didn't know what "please" meant.

? USA: They didn't know what "the rest of the world" meant.

- Kaleem Aziz.