Upcoming showsPacific Northwest Most Tuesdays: Non-Profit Comedy to benefit Seattle non-profits! Outside the Pacific Northwest June 18: Environmental Defense Fund (NYC): 11:30am, follow this link to request an invitation, make sure to specify June 18. Comedy/Book Tour: Spring 2010!Click the cover below for more about the book, and email me to bring me to your company or school! 
Past shows May 18: PNREC regional economic conference (Vancouver WA) |
Yoram Bauman, Ph.D.
The world's first and only stand-up economist* As seen on 
* Among those who may take issue with this claim are "socialist magician" Ian Saville; the BBC's Evan Davis; Robert Mundell, Columbia, who won the Nobel Prize and appears regularly on Dave Letterman; Victor Fuchs, Stanford (pic); William Breit, Trinity; Peter Orazem, Iowa State; Ben Stein ("cited by Akerlof"); Tim Harford, "Dear Economist" author for the FT; Steven Tomlinson, UT Austin; Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University; David Powell, Boston Comedy Festival finalist and MIT grad student; Paul Solman, PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; Shaun Eli, a comic who graduated from the Wharton School; Steve Zanetti of Freeman H.S. (Richmond VA); and James Kurre of Penn State Erie. Apologies to all, and email me if you belong on this list. PS. As long as I'm apologizing, my video "Principles of Economics, Translated" 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. |
Video clipsHere's the deal: You can see my clips and other funny stuff---more than just "Principles of Economics, Translated"---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. PS. You can also join my Facebook fan club! Attention hedge funds and colleges!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. (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 and 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, my political troublemaking efforts (FYI, here's my favorite blog post about stand-up and politics), a coloring book about Social Security, and an open-source textbook, Quantum Microeconomics. Hits from 1/8/06 to date: |