{"id":294559,"date":"2010-02-08T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:http:\/\/www.economist.com,2009:21004737"},"modified":"2010-02-08T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:17:09","slug":"the-best-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/294559","title":{"rendered":"The best medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

YORUM BAUMAN (the stand-up economist) has released his “Cartoon Introduction to Economics<\/a>“. It can be yours, for just over $12. I enjoy the fact that according to Amazon, cutomers who bought Mr Bauman’s book also bought “The Cartoon Guide to Statistics”, “The Cartoon History of the Modern World” (parts 1 and 2), and “The Cartoon Guide to Sex”. Some people apparently prefer to get all their knowledge in cartoon form.<\/p>\n

Anyway, via Tyler Cowen<\/a>, here<\/a>‘s a video of Mr Bauman on PBS, talking about comedy and economics. And because I feel bad for not being able to embed the video, here’s Austan Goolsbee on the Daily Show:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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YORUM BAUMAN (the stand-up economist) has released his “Cartoon Introduction to Economics“. It can be yours, for just over $12. I enjoy the fact that according to Amazon, cutomers who bought Mr Bauman’s book also bought “The Cartoon Guide to Statistics”, “The Cartoon History of the Modern World” (parts 1 and 2), and “The Cartoon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}