Comments on: Economic Inquiry: The home of economics humor!

By: rené

rené — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:41:06 +0000

you may want to have a look at “The lighter side of the dismal science: The humor of economics”. By: Ray, Margaret A., Social Science Journal, 03623319, 1991, Vol. 28, Issue 2

best,
rené

YB: Thanks, I’ve added it!

By: Rich Steinberg

Rich Steinberg — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:04:08 +0000

Thanks for setting this up. One classic you missed: http://server.eos.tuwien.ac.at/OR/Mehlmann/Andis/publ/Seminar105124/transylvanian.pdf

[YB: Thanks, I've added this!]

By: Peter Marrtin

Peter Marrtin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:03:11 +0000

The Theory of Interstellar Trade by Paul Krugman (1978).

[YB: This one is already on my list, and in fact, I helped to get it officially published, in Economic Inquiry in 2010!] But you’re right that it’s a great piece.]

http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

“This paper extends interplanetary trade to an interstellar setting. It is concerned chiefly with the following question: How would interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light?”

“While the subject-matter is silly, the analysis actually does make sense. This paper, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is, of course, the opposite of what is usual in economics.”

By: rené böheim

rené böheim — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:12:58 +0000

author = {Glaeser, Edward},
title = {The Cinderella Paradox Resolved},
journal = {Journal of Political Economy},
year = {1992},

[YB: Thanks, I've added this!]

By: Le Parisien

Le Parisien — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:46:26 +0000

The Irreverent Glossary produced by royall Brandis in 1972 also remains very appropriate, if a little dated in some of the references. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4224147

Sample entry on the Phillips Curve:

Device used to describe phenomenon which economists are unable to explain. Term derived from Phillips screwdriver which will not fit unless right screw is chosen in advance

By: Le Parisien

Le Parisien — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:39:08 +0000

Owen Covick’s “The Quantity Theory of Drink – A Restatement” is an all-time classic from 1974, but not easy to obtain:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8454.1974.tb00314.x/abstract

By: Kate Cell

Kate Cell — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:22:51 +0000

I vote for “Why I Don’t Have A Girlfriend” – http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/phd_students/backus/why_i_dont_have_a_girlfriend.pdf