Stand-Up Economist

• Carol Pinchefsky, Forbes blog, “What’s Funny About Taxes? Ask the World’s First ‘Stand-Up Economist’”, Jan 25, 2012.
• Andy Extance, Simple Climate blog, “Recycling carbon taxes can benefit planet and pocket”, Jan 21, 2012. A nice interview focused on carbon pricing, with excerpts from my cartoon book.
• 张品秋, Business Management Review, “放松点，听段经济学相声”, Jan 2012.
• Jamie Condliffe, New Scientist, “What’s so funny about money?”, Jan 12, 2012.
• First Business, “Funny money”, Jan 9, 2012.
• Paul Solman and Elizabeth Shell, PBS Newshour blog, “Laughing at Macroeconomics: A Cartoon Introduction”, Jan 4, 2012.
• טלי שמיר (Tali Shamir), כלכליסט (Calcalist, a business newspaper in Israel), “כלכלן, יהודי וסטנדאפיסט נכנס לבר” (“A Jewish economist walks into a bar…”), Dec 28, 2011.
• MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show, “‘Stand-up’ economist on un-funny reality”, Dec 28, 2011.
• Yoram Bauman, New York Times, “The dismal education”, Dec 16, 2011. (This is an op-ed about my research with Elaina Rose, published in 2011 in JEBO 79:318-327.)
• Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, “Funny economist can nimbly turn the Laffer curve into the laughter curve”, Dec 8, 2011.
• 占昕 / 文, 投资者报 (Investor Report), 鲍曼的卡通经济学 (“Bauman cartoon economics”), Dec 5, 2011.
• Dominic Swire, CRI (China Radio International), “Stand-up Economist in China – It’s No Joke!”, Dec 1, 2011. There’s also a related radio broadcast and transcript.
• ABC Lateline Business (Australia), “Bauman pioneers stand-up economics”, Dec 1, 2011.
• Paul Solman and Yoram Bauman, PBS Newshour blog, “Is America a Loan Shark or a Borrowing Walrus?”, Nov 16, 2011.
• Vera Penêda, Global Times (China), “Economics comic”, Oct 25, 2011.
• Council for Economic Education, Jokes, Quotations, and Cartoons in Economics lesson plan: “Students will apply their knowledge of economics to the analysis and interpretation of jokes, quotations, and cartoons in economics. Students will watch a Paul Solman video of an interview of Yoram Bauman, the Stand up Economist. Students will use Daryl Cagel’s cartoon website, JokEc on the Web, and news media to find economics humor and interpret.”
• Bud Ward, Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, “Making Climate Change Fun and Funny”, May 18, 2011.
• Isha Thompson, University of Alberta News, “Stand-up economist embraces stereotypes in comedy routine”, Jan 27, 2011.
• Evelyne Kolker, UW Daily, “The world’s first and only stand-up economist”, Jan 19, 2011.
• Ian Chant, PopMatters, “Of Guffaws and GDPs: PopMatters Talks to Yoram Bauman, Standup Economist”, Aug 19, 2010.
• Andrew Clark, Christian Science Monitor, “Recession humor enjoys global boom”, July 19, 2010.
• 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.

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• 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.