Stand-Up Economist

• Ezra Glinter, The Forward (a Jewish daily paper), Tickling the Money Bone, April 23, 2010.
• Paul Solman, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, “Stand-up Economist Finds the Light Side of a ‘Dismal Science’“, Feb 4, 2010. (Thanks to Lee Koromvokis and Diane Lincoln and of course Paul Solman… and check out the cameo by my father, Joel Bauman: he’s the one in the red sweater and green bolo tie!) PS. Here’s more video in a follow-up on the PBS website.
• Mark Rahner, “UW’s ’stand-up economist’ answers demand for laughs“, Seattle Times, Feb 1 2010.
• Serena Danna, “Sapete l’ultima? Un economista entra in un bar…“, Il Sole 24 Ore (Italian financial newspaper) , Jan 19 2010.
• Justin Lahart, “Secrets of the Economist’s Trade: First, Purchase a Piggy Bank“, Wall Street Journal, Jan 2 2010. (My first mention in the Journal!
• Marc A Wojno, “Take This Economy — Please“, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Feb 2009.
• Josh Levs, CNN (video, transcript and video), Jan 6 2010.
• Peter Monaghan, “An Economist Stands Up for a Less Dismal Science“, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan 3 2010.
• NPR Morning Edition interview with Ari Sharpiro: “Reviewing Financial Fixes In 2009“, Dec 14, 2009. (The interview starts at 0:30, and I thank Tim Harford for help with the English accent; my failures of course are all mine :)
• “Eine Krise, die macht lustig“, FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) May 24, 2009.
• KING-5 (Seattle) Evening Magazine, “Laughing at the economy“, Mar 23, 2009.
• Video blog of CBS News Sunday Morning, “Prescription for the economy“, Mar 20, 2009.
• Monica Guzman, “Stand-up economist: Microsoft layoffs are no joke”, Seattle P-I Big Blog, Jan 23, 2009.
• Susan Kim, “Postcard from San Francisco“, Time Jan 26, 2009.
• Paul Solman, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, “Economists place their best with predictions for 2009“, Jan 14, 2009. Also see this “extended excerpt” on the blog of NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman. (Thanks to Diane Lincoln and Lee Koromvokis!)
• Catherine Rampell, “Economic Humor: No Longer an Oxymoron“, NY Times Economix blog, Jan 4, 2009.
• Athima Chansanchai, “Do-gooders and good humor mix well on Non-Profit Nights, and that’s no joke“, Seattle P-I, Jan 29, 2007. Also in the PDF file here.
• A mention in Daniel Gross, “The forecast for the forecasters is dismal“, New York Times, March 4, 2007. Also included in the PDF file here.
• Murray Townsend, “Professor sees comedy demand and supplies it“, The Bottom Line (”the independent voice for Canada’s accounting and financial professionals”), Nov 2008.
• Nancy Wick, “Economics, the funny science“, University Week (the University of Washington faculty/staff newspaper), Aug. 16, 2007.
• Christine Mattauch, “Lächerliche Ökonomie“, Handelsblatt (the Wall Street Journal of Germany), Feb 4, 2008 (and also an Olaf Storbeck blog posting, “Lächerliche VWL“, Dec 16 2007).
• Katherine Macalister, “Funny Money“, Oxford (UK) Mail, April 18, 2008.
• Courtney Nash, “Funny Money”, Seattle Metropolitan, May 2007. Also included in the PDF file here.
• Scott Jagow, NPR’s Marketplace, March 21, 2008.

Also mentions in academic articles:

• Jack J. Vromen, “The booming economics-made-fun genre: More than having fun, but less than
  economics imperialism”, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 2:70-99 (2009).
• William E. Becker, “Quit Lying and Address the Controversies: There are no Dogmata, Laws, Rules or Standards in the Science of Economics”, American Economist, Spring 2007.