Cartoon Macro now available in Japan!
Published by Diamond, available at Amazon Japan and elsewhere. PS. Here's info about the micro book. And, courtesy of the publisher, here's one of my [...]
S*** happens (now with annotations!)
Jodi Beggs of economistsitwithmodels.com has provided some helpful annotations to my latest video, "S*** happens: The economics version". (In case you missed the video, just [...]
My new comedy video: “S*** happens: the economics version”
Below is a Jan 2012 video of a routine I performed at the American Economic Association humor session in Chicago. It contains bad language (repeated [...]
Harry Potter economics
From BGI student David Rutherford: Peregrine Bosler posted on Facebook that a friend of hers' equates studying econ with the dark arts, although comparing it [...]
My hilarious global warming exchange with Ruffin and Gregory
In November 2000 I received a complimentary copy of a new microeconomics textbook by two professors at the University of Houston. The book's treatment of [...]
My hilarious global warming exchange with Ruffin and Gregory
In November 2000 I received a complimentary copy of a new microeconomics textbook by two professors at the University of Houston. The book's treatment of [...]
About my Reed (undergrad) thesis
As an undergrad math major I wrote a senior thesis called "The Abelian Group Structure on Elliptic Curves Saved My Life!" Sadly, I no longer [...]
An open letter to Austan Goolsbee (Oct 8 2009)
Dear Austan: You might think that it was quite a shock for me--"the world's first and only stand-up economist"--to find a Wall Street Journal blog [...]
The anthropology of peak oil
Ari Rubenstein has a hilarious (and thought-provoking) take on participants in the Peak Oil debate, with a "spectrum... from total denial..." Abiotic Oilers: Related to [...]
Economics sit-com
In early 2009 a fellow named Sultan organized a contest for a TV show about economists. (Here were the rules, here were the entries, and [...]