[GJM] Stupid Economists!

[robert searle]

You all might find this video of some amusement..

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> "Mankiw's 10 principles of economics, translated for
> the uninitiated", by Yoram Bauman,
> http://www.standupeconomist.com . Presented at the
> AAAS humor session, February 16, 2007. For the
> record, 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 a published article in Annals
> of Improbable Research (see
>
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> trade can make everyone worse off (or you can just
> wait 50 years to see what happens with climate
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