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Here's "Mankiw's Principles of Economics, Translated" (as blogged by Mankiw!). Read the original AIR paper here (also now in Portuguese). If you want to show a better-quality version in classes or elsewhere, right-click here and choose "save as" to download an MP4 file to your computer. (To play it, PC users might need a free download of this QuickTime player.)

Here's my 2009 video on the financial crisis.

In Jan 2007 I performed at Caroline's on Broadway (in NYC's Times Square) and was amazed to find a hugely supportive group of NERA economists in the audience. I tried out my "You might be an economist if..." routine for the first time... if you have suggestions for other tag-lines, please email me!

Here's a Mankiw follow-up video (half serious, half comedic) about climate change, which is what I study in my academic life. If you want to show a better-quality version in classes or elsewhere, right-click here and choose "save as" to download an MP4 file to your computer. (To play it, PC users might need a free download of this QuickTime player.)

Here's my bumper-stickers routine.

Below is a short clip of MCs butchering my name, a good reminder of how far I've come in the comedy world (and how much farther I have to go :)