[Humour] So you want to get a PhD in economics?

Time Magazine · 12-11-2010 3:09am #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc6frwaMcjk

"I did well in all my undergraduate classes."

"That's great, if you even took undergraduate classes as an undergraduate you're already screwed."

:pac:

Slippers 2 · 13-11-2010 9:18pm

Sort of on topic:
The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.

Économiste Monétaire · 13-11-2010 9:44pm

Thread stickied because, at a time like this, we need humour. Post anything with a high, statistically significant correlation between funny and economics.

Via Mankiw, What to do with your money when hyperinflation occurs:

Link.

Time Magazine · 14-11-2010 2:33am

Économiste Monétaire · 18-11-2010 12:06am

Économiste Monétaire · 18-11-2010 12:08am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBrHkxqNT7s

Time Magazine · 18-11-2010 6:11pm

Économiste Monétaire wrote: »

Post anything with a high, statistically significant correlation between funny and economics.

RTÉ News, December 2008, "Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has said the Government's plan to recapitalise three Irish banks is a good deal for taxpayers."

Time Magazine · 23-11-2010 3:55am

April 2009,
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Time Magazine · 23-11-2010 4:09am

Scientific American published an article called "The Economist Has No Clothes" in 2008. It begins:

Robert Nadeau wrote:

The 19th-century creators of neoclassical economics—the theory that now serves as the basis for coordinating activities in the global market system—are credited with transforming their field into a scientific discipline. But what is not widely known is that these now legendary economists—William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras, Maria Edgeworth and Vilfredo Pareto—developed their theories by adapting equations from 19th-century physics that eventually became obsolete.

Oh, my...

mono627 · 23-11-2010 10:20am

If it's in a cartoon it has to be true...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJwwAVM1Auc

irish_goat · 25-11-2010 4:56pm

Économiste Monétaire · 01-12-2010 6:57pm

Via Mankiw,

goose2005 · 01-12-2010 7:00pm

Two economists are walking down the street and see a €20 note on the pavement. One says, "Is that a €20 note?" and the other says, "Of course not -if it was, someone would have picked it up."