On his blog yesterday, Mankiw has a great humorous YouTube done by, presumably, students at Harvard. Mankiw himself has a starring role and plays it beautifully. The video is professionally done also and even, in the midst of humor, shows taxation supply curves. Well worth watching.
Oct 27 2010
Eamonn Butler, who wrote the much under-appreciated Best Book on the Market, has a new project, a primer on Austrian ecoomics. Once again, I think he has done an outstanding job. In light of our discussion of Arrow, I note the following: A society does not choose; a collective has no life or mind of its own; That...
Oct 27 2010
The Kauffman Foundation's Tim Kane generously included one of my questions on the latest quarterly econ blogger's survey:The net externality of the birth of an additional child in the United States is... [POSITIVE, ZERO, or NEGATIVE]Survey says: I suspect that left-wing economists are underrepresented in blogging, and ...
Oct 27 2010
On his blog yesterday, Mankiw has a great humorous YouTube done by, presumably, students at Harvard. Mankiw himself has a starring role and plays it beautifully. The video is professionally done also and even, in the midst of humor, shows taxation supply curves. Well worth watching.
READER COMMENTS
liberty
Oct 27 2010 at 12:59pm
I didn’t really find it funny. But their social networking (facebook movie) parody was pretty good.
http://respectablyfrench.com
David R. Henderson
Oct 27 2010 at 1:52pm
@liberty,
Hmm. I found the social networking one tasteless and couldn’t even make myself finish it. Further evidence for My Pillar #7, “Values are subjective,” which I also refer to as “Different Strokes for Different Folks.”
dave smith
Oct 27 2010 at 1:55pm
“I could afford a bodyguard…”
ROFL!
Alex Tabarrok
Oct 27 2010 at 2:36pm
Mankiw’s students need not worry there are substitutes for everything! 🙂
liberty
Oct 27 2010 at 3:03pm
“I found the social networking one tasteless and couldn’t even make myself finish it.”
How so? Maybe I missed something..?
Bag O'Donuts
Oct 27 2010 at 3:29pm
How can you tell an economist from an accountant? The accountant is the one with a sense of humor.
… point proved by Mankiw’s students.
Scott Scheule
Oct 27 2010 at 5:41pm
Horseshit! See Yoram Bauman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVp8UGjECt4&feature=related
David R. Henderson
Oct 27 2010 at 5:49pm
@Bag O’Donuts,
You do get that Mankiw was acting, right?
Henry
Oct 29 2010 at 8:24am
I believe that Bag O’Donuts’ point was that the clip was unfunny, not that Mankiw was upset about Colbert’s comment. And I agree.
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