Some Economics Humor

Greg Mankiw is an economics professor at Harvard and the author of the leading introductory economics textbook. He organizes the book around ten principles. A year ago, an economic humorist (no, that isn't an oxymoron) named Yoram Bauman broke down the real meaning of Mankiw's principles. Great stuff! I particularly liked…

Microeconomists are people are wrong about specific things and macroeconomists are wrong about things is general.

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Economists have successfully predicted nine out of the last five recessions.

Check it out.


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