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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...PowerPoint presentations. Not exactly the ideal setting, but as an audience member remarks, "This is the Carnegie Hall for economists who are also comedians." For attendees, it's the biggest night of the conference: boisterous comic relief to end a week packed with enticingly titled seminars such as "Arbitrageur of Capital" and "Dynamics of Asset Returns and Liquidity." "Microeconomists are wrong about specific things, and macroeconomists are wrong about things in general," Bauman quips during his set. "Particularly having successfully predicted nine out of the last five recessions." It's funnier if you're familiar with the inherent tense dichotomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Didja Hear the One About the Funny Economist? | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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