Upcoming shows

Seattle / Pacific Northwest

Most Tuesdays: Non-Profit Comedy (We've raised $40,000+ for local non-profits!)
May 21: Ingraham High School (Seattle) benefit for Kiva
June 13 (tentative) Coeur d'Alene (ID)
July 11: Southwest Washington Sustainability Conference and Trade Show (Vancouver WA)
July 25: Kinship Conservation Fellows (Bellingham WA)
Oct 12-13 (tentative): Association for University Business and Economic Research (Bellingham)

Boston/Chicago/Toronto/San Diego

June 4: GMAC Financial Services (Boston)
July 16: Game Theory World Congress (Chicago)
Sept 19: Certified General Accountants (Toronto)
Oct 23 (tentative): Palomar College (San Diego)
Oct 24 (tentative): CA Association of School Economics Teachers (San Diego)

Past shows

In 2008
May 14: Law Librarians of Puget Sound
May 8: WA Office of the State Treasurer
May 2: Harvard University (N. Gregory Mankiw's class!)
April 30: SUNY-Oswego (NY) College Hour
April 29: Lafayette College (PA)
April 23: University of Bonn (Germany)
April 22: Bank for Intl Settlements Basel (Switzerland)
April 19: Oxford OFS (UK)
April 18: Univ. of Sussex Falmer Bar (UK)
April 18: Dept for Communities and Local Gvmt (UK)
April 8: Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PPE)
March 26: McMaster University (Hamilton Ontario)
March 25: Ryerson University (Toronto)
March 11: Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) Seattle
Jan 31: Focus the Nation at UW-Seattle and Bellevue Community College
January 17: Sustainable Connections

In 2007
Dec 14: Yale Economics Department winter party
Nov 12: Colorado College
Nov 1: Gulf Coast Economics Teaching Conference

* Among those who may take issue with this claim are Robert Mundell, Columbia, who won the Nobel Prize and appears regularly on Dave Letterman; William Breit, Trinity; Victor Fuchs, Stanford (pic); Tim Harford, "Dear Economist" author for the FT; Peter Orazem, Iowa State; Ben Stein ("cited by Akerlof"); UT Austin's Steven Tomlinson; Tel Aviv University's Ariel Rubinstein; David Powell, Boston Comedy Festival finalist and MIT grad student; Shaun Eli, a comic who graduated from the Wharton School; Steve Zanetti of Freeman H.S. (Richmond VA); and Columbia University's Glenn Hubbard imposter. Apologies to all, and email me if you belong on this list.

Video clips

Here's the deal: You can see my clips and other funny stuff, and all I ask for in return is your email and your closest location so I can tell you when I'm coming to town. No spam I promise.

Attention investment bankers!

My father says that the real joke is my abandoning nine years of higher education to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. Help me prove him wrong by hiring me to perform at your holiday parties &etc. (I also do a great funny/serious talk about climate change, which is the focus of my academic research.)

Comedy bio

"An economist who teaches at the University of Washington and performs stand-up comedy" (NY Times), Yoram Bauman is also Specialized Co-Editor for Miscellany of Economic Inquiry.

Headshots, bios, and email. Yes I have an economics PhD (UW, 2003), and of course I went to Reed College.

Personal homepage, which includes funny writings, a coloring book about Social Security, and an open-source text, Quantum Microeconomics.

Death with Dignity: This year I'm supporting Washington State's Death with Dignity ballot measure, I-1000. (In the past I've gathered almost 1,000 signatures each for successful measures to promote renewable energy and ban smoking in bars and comedy clubs, I-937 and I-901.) PS. Here's my favorite blog post about stand-up and politics.

"Principles of Economics, Translated": If you don't know what I'm talking about, see the video. If you do know what I'm talking about, the talk contains two unattributed quotes ("9 out of 5" is adapted from a line attributed to Paul Samuelson---although apparently he said it about Wall Street indices, not macroeconomists---and "wrong about things" is paraphrased from P.J. O'Rourke's Eat the Rich) and, of course, the Einstein "simple" quote is an intentional misquote. The talk is based on this published article in Annals of Improbable Research, which sponsored my talk and to which you should subscribe. Thanks to AIR and to N.G. Mankiw for mentioning my video in his blog. (Maybe he'll parody my micro text if it ever gets a non-zero market share.)

Hits from 1/8/06 to date: .