| Principles of economics, translated |
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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
http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volu
me9/v9i2/mankiw.html ), which sponsored my
talk and to which you should subscribe
(http://improb.com/subscribe/ ). In the paper
you can see the "constructive example" of how
trade can make everyone worse off (or you can
just wait 50 years to see what happens with
climate change). More info and other clips on
my website (http://www.standupeconomist.com
), and please sign up for my email list. (No
spam I promise.)
Tags : Mankiw Mankiw's Principles of Economics translated AAAS AIR Yoram Bauman stand-up economist |
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Affichage : 473252
Durée : 320 s |
| Liberty and Economics |
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What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises? As
this unique film shows, Mises (1881-1973) was
a man who never stopped fighting for freedom:
not when the Nazis burned his books, not when
the Left blackballed him at universities, not
when it seemed as if statism had won. With
courage and genius, he fought big government
until the day he died ... in 25 books,
hundreds of articles, and more than 60 years
of teaching.
Mises's battles against Communists, Nazis,
and other socialists, are featured in this
film, as are his ideas of Liberty. There is
also the old Vienna he loved, the Bolshevik
prime minister he dissuaded from Communism,
and a cast of villains from Lenin to Hitler,
as well as such supporters and students as
Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, Bettina Greaves,
M. Stanton Evans, Mary Peterson, Joseph
Sobran, and Yuri Maltsev.
Among his many accomplishments, Mises showed
that socialism had to fail, that central
banking causes recessions and depressions,
that the gold standard is honest money, and
that only laissez-faire capitalism is fully
compatible with Western civilization.
Mises was the twentieth century's foremost
economist, and one of its most important
champions of Liberty. Here is a film that
does justice to this extraordinary man, and
to his equally extraordinary ideas.
Tags : Ludwig von Mises Austrian Economics Liberty Freedom Capitalism Free Market Socialism |
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Affichage : 40546
Durée : 2269 s |
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