On the Third Hand: Humor in the Dismal Science, an AnthologyIf ever you suspected that economic humor is an oxymoron, read on. This anthology, offering over a hundred selections of economic humor in the form of essays, fables, cartoons, verses, parodies, and epigrams drawn from works ancient and modern, will disabuse you of that notion by way of laughter. The contributors, about evenly divided between economists and noneconomists, share a common urge to poke fun at economics and its practitioners. Their styles and methods, however, range from kind and gentle to mordant and misanthropic; this is not surprising given the diversity of their professions: diplomat, playwright, printer's devil, publisher, columnist, physician, inventor, minister, corporate president, radio star, New York Stock Exchange member, and philosopher, to name but a few. Bringing economic humor into the light of day, Caroline Clotfelter gathers her collection of materials into recognizable categories: economists as others see them, the language and methods of economics, Econ 101, micro- and macroeconomics, and basic economic models and ideas. Aiding and abetting her include such luminaries as John Stuart Mill, George Bernard Shaw, "Mad Magazine, " Stephen Leacock, Emily Dickinson, Rube Goldberg, Pogo, and John Kenneth Galbraith. As no other, this book will challenge economists to enjoy jokes at their own expense; noneconomists may have even less difficulty finding something funny in this most dismal of sciences. Caroline Postelle Clotfelter, former Professor of Economics, Mercer University, is now retired. |
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Whether the Macro - modl can be regarded as originally a “ useful implement ” would seem to hinge in the first place on whether the type of " prospecting " ritualized in the described ceremony produces ac- tual results .
Whether the Macro - modl can be regarded as originally a “ useful implement ” would seem to hinge in the first place on whether the type of " prospecting " ritualized in the described ceremony produces ac- tual results .
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The empirical results are reported below , with standard errors in parentheses : NBRUSH = 2.04 -0.006 AGE - 0.096 WAGE + 0.054 NTEETH ( 0.63 ) ( 0.001 ) ( 0.001 ) + 0.0043 S- 0.0022 EXP ( 0.009 ) - 0.146 FDUM ( 0.0002 ) + 0.0006 Y ...
The empirical results are reported below , with standard errors in parentheses : NBRUSH = 2.04 -0.006 AGE - 0.096 WAGE + 0.054 NTEETH ( 0.63 ) ( 0.001 ) ( 0.001 ) + 0.0043 S- 0.0022 EXP ( 0.009 ) - 0.146 FDUM ( 0.0002 ) + 0.0006 Y ...
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If unemployment is plotted against inflation for the 1960's , the result is a reasonably smooth curve . But if the same chronological plotting is done for the 1970's , as the U.S. economy drifted deeper into stagflation , the result is ...
If unemployment is plotted against inflation for the 1960's , the result is a reasonably smooth curve . But if the same chronological plotting is done for the 1970's , as the U.S. economy drifted deeper into stagflation , the result is ...
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