Economist Jokes 
The original JokEc inFinlandis mirrored inJapan,UKandUSA.For the benefit of the service pleaseuse the closest mirror.Jokes about economists and economicsI believe thateven Adam  Smith would enjoy these jokes. Mathematician: let's see...3 is prime, 5 isprime, and the result follows by induction.Physicist: let's see...3 is prime,5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is -- experimental error, 11 is prime, 13 isprime, ...Engineer: let's see...3 is prime,5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime...Computer Scientist: let's see...3is prime, 3 is prime, 3 is prime...Economist: let's see...2 is prime,4 is prime, 6 is prime...(the joke has apparently very little to do with economics, but if it makes you laugh...)An econometrician E.M. left hisoffice after a long day of doing estimations. When arriving at the parkinglots, he could not find his car because he could not remember the exactplace where he left it. After pondering a while, he stopped at an emptylot and started cursing, "they stole my car, those bloody bandits". Hecalled in the police who started taking notes after arrival. A friend fromthe history department passed along. After listening to what had happenedhe said, "hey, your car is 25 meters over there, didn't you realize?" Theeconometrician said, "Can't be, this is the mean value of the distributionof my past choices of lots"."I once read about a meeting ofeconomists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, thatwas considered a high mark in their profession. Well, of course, I knowyou cannot invest in securities successfully with odds like that againstyou if you place dependence solely upon judgement as to the right securitiesto own and the right time or price to buy them. Then, too, I read somewhereabout the man who described an economist as resembling 'a professor ofanatomy who was still a virgin.'"-Gerald M Loeb (1935, 1965 ed.)"The Battle for Investment Survival"Economics-everything we know ina language we don't understand.A voice from history. "Not all Germans believe inGod but they believe in the Bundesbank" Jacques Delors former presidentof European Commissionin FT December 15,1998 A real story One day, the professor whotaught Money and Banking in Buenos Aires told us: "I do not know if youwill find a job as economists, but am sure you will know why you are goingto be poor" Overheard in passing: one Oxford economics don speaking to anotherwhile walking along a street: "And ninthly, ..."from Albert Clack in London.An economics limerick Folks came from afar just toseeTwo Economists who'd agreed to agree.While the event did take place,It proved a disgrace;They agreed one plus one adds tothree. Robley E. GeorgeA joke on the streets of Moscow these days, according to World Bankstaffer John Nellis, goes this way: "Everything the Communists told usabout communism was a complete and utter lie. Unfortunately, everythingthe Communists told us about capitalism turned out to be true." A Scorpion begged a Frog to carry him across the river because he couldnot swim. The Frog hesitated for fearing being stung by the Scorpion. TheScorpion said: "Don't worry, you know I won't sting you since we will bothget drowned if I do that". So the Frog carried Scorpion across the river.But in the middle of the river, it happened--the Frog got a sting. Beforehe died, the Frog asked Scorpion in disbelief: "I don't understand whyyou did this!?" "Because I am not a game theorist and you are", repliedthe Scorpion. Contributed by Ding LuA real story Last year at the SEA meetingsin Baltimore, I was in the elevator and witnessed the following: the elevatorgets to the lobby, and there is a woman (economist) waiting to get in anda man (economist) waiting to get out. The woman pauses to allow the manto exit first, the man pauses to allow the woman to enter the elevatorfirst. After a couple of seconds of just standing there, they both makea move for the door - but as each sees the other moving, they pause againto allow the other to go first. More standing still occurs until finallythe door starts to close. The man in the elevator jabs his arm out at thelast instant to prevent the doors from closing, and the two stumble pasteach other as they simultaneous switch places. The door finally closes,and as the elevator starts to move the economist is heard to say, underher breath, "Manners are never optimal."- Edward BierhanzlA joke told at Kobe University The new theorem was publishedand it aroused discussion.English : "Can you make this theorembase on some experiences?"German : "Can you make this theorembase on some basic theorems?"French : "Can you make this theoremtranslate into French?"Japanese : "Is your teacher a famousprofessor?"INTEREST GROUP ECONOMIST VIRUS - Divides your hard disk into hundredsof little units, each of which does practically nothing, but all of whichclaim to be the most important part of the computer.ECONOMETRICIAN VIRUS - Sixty percentof the PCs infected will lose 38 percent of their data 14 percent of thetime (plus or minus a 3.5 percent margin ofPOLITICAL THINK TANK ECONOMIST VIRUS- Doesn't do anything, but you can't get rid of it until next election.GOVERNMENT ECONOMIST VIRUS - nothingworks on your system, but all your diagnostic software says everythingis just fine.MARXIAN ECONOMIST VIRUS - Helpsyour computer shut down whenever it wants to.SOVIET ECONOMIST VIRUS - Crashesyour computer, but denies it ever happened.MAINSTREAM ECONOMIST VIRUS - Itclaims it feels threatened by the other files on your PC and erases thenin "self-defense."CENTRAL BANK ECONOMIST VIRUS - Makessure that it's bigger than any other file.MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION ECONOMISTVIRUS - Deletes all monetary files, but keeps smiling and sending messagesabout how the economy is going to get better.SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMIST VIRUS - Putsyour computer to sleep for four years. When your computer wakes up, you'retrillion more dollars in debt.NEW ECONOMY VIRUS - Also known asthe "Tricky Dick Virus." You can wipe it out, but it always makes a comeback.ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIST VIRUS -Before allowing you to delete any file, it first asks you if you've consideredthe alternatives.Two economists sit down to playchess. They study the board for 24 hours and declare a stale-mate. A friend of mine was taking a class by Milton Friedman at the U ofChicago, and after a late night studying fell asleep in class. This sentFriedman into a little tizzy and he came over and pounded on the table,demanding an answer to a question he had just posed to the class, my friend,shaken but now awake said " I'm sorry Professor, I missed the questionbut the answer is increase the money supply."We love it on the floor of the CBOT. What does it take to be a good economist? An unshakeable grasp of theobvious! " I have come to appreaciate how Monetarists view the holiness of thisprinciple ['Friedman's x% rule'] by watching Friedman advising on the appropriatemonetary policy in diverse complex situations and each time coming up,unfailingly, with the same practical answer: 3 percent."-Franco ModiglianiContemporary Policy Issues (1988)6 October Robert M. Solow, addressing other economists on the Theory of Capitalin 1962, "I have long since abandoned the illusion that participants inthis debate actually communicate with one another. So I omit the standardpolemical introduction, and get down to business at once." It's good tosee an empirical economic discovery that has stood the test of time.Introductory lines to his "In theTheory of Capital", XXIV (June 1962), 207-218, Review of Economic Studies. Heard at the University of Oslo campusWe all know what pareto optimal allocationmeans... What about Jesus-optimal allocation -- when all persons are equallywell off, and one person _really_ gets it bad, worse off, while all therest are much better off... Dostojevskij-minimum: When everyone is so bad off that no-one can beworse off without anyone getting better off. (Beware of the second-ordercondition!) Achieving free trade is like getting to heaven. Everyone one wantsto get there, but not too soon. Value of human capitalEngineers and scientists will nevermake as much money as business executives. Now a rigorous mathematicalproof that explains why this is true:Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.Postulate 2: Time is Money.As every engineer knows,Work---------- = PowerTimeSince Knowledge = Power, and Time=Money, we haveWork--------- = KnowledgeMoneySolving for Money, we get:Work----------- = MoneyKnowledgeThus, as Knowledge approaches zero,Money approaches infinity regardless of the Work done.Conclusion: The Less you Know, themore money you Make.A traveller wandering on an islandinhabited entirely by cannibals comes upon a butcher shop. This shop specialisedin human brains differentiated according to source. The sign in the shopread:Artists' Brains $9/lbPhilosophers' Brains $12/lbScientists' Brains $15/lbEconomists' Brains $19/lbUpon reading the sign, the travellernoted, "My those economists' brains must be popular!" To which the butcherreplied, "Are you kidding! Do you have any idea how many economists youhave to kill to get a pound of brains?!"HA! ... It's a *supply side* joke!President Truman once said he wantsan economic adviser who is one handed. Why? Because normally the economistsgiving him economic advice state "On one hand and on the other..." The Commerce Department has a 46-page application packet for economiststo seeking to run its leading economic index, but the packet warns: "thegovernment will evaluate only the first 25 pages of a written proposal."The Wall Street Journal, July 21,1995 In Canada there is a small radical group that refuses to speak englishand no one can understand them. They are called separatists. In this country(USA) we have the same kind of group. They are called economists.Nation's Business An economist was asked about the meaning of life. He replied:It depends on the parameter values. On the first day God created the sun - so the Devil countered and createdsunburn. On the second day God created sex. In response the Devil createdmarriage. On the third day God created an economist. This was a tough onefor the Devil, but in the end and after a lot of thought he created a secondeconomist!CHEER February 1993 Three leading economists took a small plane to the wilderness in northernCanada to hunt moose over the weekend. The last thing the pilot said was, remember, this is a very small plane and you will only be able to bringONE moose back.But of course, they killed one eachand come sunday, they talked the pilot into letting them bring all threedead moose onboard. So just after takeoff, the plane stalled and crashed.In the wreckage, one of the economists woke up, looked around and said.where the hell are we. Oh, just about a hundred yards east of the placethere we crashed last year. "Economic man" never gets a hang-over, if he doesn't decide that theadvantages of acquiring it exceed the draw-backs. Everybody has a comparative advantage in some respect, provided thatperformances are not entirely in the third quadrant. "This man is a first year economics student, so we can't show you hisfriends." - Tim Ferguson, DAAS Farewell Tour, 1994 An Economist is someone who didn't have enough personality to becomean accountant. An economist is someone who knows 100 ways to make love, but doesn'tknow any women/men. Q: What is a recent economics graduate's usual question in his firstjob?A: What would you like to have withyour french fries sir? An economist returns to visit his old school. He's interested in thecurrent exam questions and asks his old professor to show some. To hissurprise they are exactly the same ones to which he had answered 10 yearsago! When he asks about this the professor answers: "the questions arealways the same - only the answers change!" Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. A central banker walks into a pizzeria to order a pizza.When the pizza is done, he goes upto the counter get it. There a clerk asks him: "Should I cut it into sixpieces or eight pieces?"The central banker replies: "I'mfeeling rather hungry right now. You'd better cut it into eight pieces."Reproduced below is an EconomistJoke that illustrates the separate facilities solution to an externalityproblem.Three guys decide to play a roundof golf: a priest, a psychologist, and an economist.They get behind a *very* slow two-some,who, despite a caddy, are taking all day to line up their shots and four-puttingevery green, and so on. By the 8th hole, the three men are complainingloudly about the slow play ahead and swearing a blue streak, and so on.The priest says, "Holy Mary, I pray that they should take some lessonsbefore they play again." The psychologist says, "I swear there are peoplethat like to play golf slowly." The economist says, "I really didn't expectto spend this much time playing a round of golf."By the 9th hole, they have had itwith slow play, so the psychologist goes to the caddy and demands thatthey be allowed to play through. The caddy says O.K., but then explainsthat the two golfers are blind, that both are retired firemen who losttheir eyesight saving people in a fire, and that explains their slow play,and would they please not swear and complain so loud.The priest is mortified; he says,"Here I am a man of the cloth and I've been swearing at the slow play oftwo blind men." The psychologist is also mortified; he says, "Here I ama man trained to help others with their problems and I've been complainingabout the slow play of two blind men."The economist ponders the situation-finallyhe goes back to the caddy and says, "Listen, the next time could they playat night."A physicist, a chemist and an economistare stranded on an island, with nothing to eat. A can of soup washes ashore.The physicist says, "Lets smash the can open with a rock." The chemistsays, "Lets build a fire and heat the can first." The economist says, "Letsassume that we have a can-opener..."Paul Samuelson Q: What's the difference between a finance major and an economics major?A: Opportunity CostAn economist, a philosopher, a biologist,and an architect were were arguing about what was God's real profession.The philosopher said, "Well, first and foremost, God is a philosopher becausehe created the principles by which man is to live." "Ridiculous!" saidthe biologist "Before that, God created man and woman and all living thingsso clearly he was a biologist." "Wrong," said the architect. "Before that,he created the heavens and the earth. Before the earth, there was onlycomplete confusion and chaos!" "Well," said the economist, "where do youthink the chaos came from?"The First Law of Economists: Forevery economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.The Second Law of Economists: They'reboth wrong.pkm's existence theorem: for everyfinite set of answers there exists an infinite set of novel models If all the economists were laid end to enda) it would be a good thingb) they would be more comfortablec) they would never reach conclusiond) all of the abovee) none of the abovef) they would point in differentdirections Two economists are walking down the street. One sees a dollar lyingon the sidewalk, and says so."Obviously not," says the other."If there were, someone would have picked it up!"PS. Replace the dollar with a relevantresearch idea and you get a new joke. We have 2 classes of forecasters: Those who don't know . . . and thosewho don't know they don't know.- John Kenneth GalbraithThe experience of being proved completelywrong is salutory. No economist should be denied it, and none are.- J K Galbraith"Murphys law of economic policy":Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the mostand are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where theyknow the least and disagree most vehemently.- Alan S. Blinder An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things hepredicted yesterday didn't happen today.- Laurence J. Peter A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anythingis last year.- Marty Allen Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant--inflationfeeds on itself and quickly passes the "little" mark.- Dian Cohen I don't think you can spend yourself rich.- George Humphrey If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.- George Bernard Shaw Practical men ... are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.economist- John Maynard Keynes If you put two economists in a room, you get two opinions, unless oneof them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.- Winston Churchill Shall I tell you the opinion of a famous economist on jealousy? Jealousyis just the fact of being deprived. Nothing more.- Henry Becque Stephen M. Goldfeld, in _The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking_.November, 1984, p. 611: "An economist is someone who sees something workingin practice and asks whether it would work in principle." Economists don't answer to questions others make because they knowwhat the answer is. They answer because they are asked.There is also a joke about the lastMayday parade in the Soviet Union. After the tanks and the troops and theplanes and the missiles rolled by there came ten men dressed in black."Are they Spies?" Asked Gorby?"They are economists," replies theKGB director, "imagine the havoc they will wreak when we set them looseon the Americans"The mathematician's child and theeconomist's child were in the third grade together, and the teacher asked,"If one man with one shovel can dig a ditch in ten days, how long wouldit take ten men with ten shovels to dig the same ditch?" Both childrenraised their hands.The teacher said to the mathematician'schild, "Johnny, how long?" and little Johnny v. said, "One day, teacher."The teacher looked at the economist'schild and said, "John Maynard, is that right?"Little John Maynard said, "Teacher,it all depends."Most of the following jokes wereforwarded to me by Russell Gum to whom I owe a big thanks."Having a house economist becamefor many business people something like havinga resident astrologer forthe royal court: I don't quite understand what this fellow is saying butthere must be something to it." Linden. (Jan. 11, 1993). Dreary Days inthe Dismal Science. Forbes. Pp. 68-70.The following joke is a joint inventionof Preston McAfee, Phil Reny and several so far anonymous writers.Why God Never Received Tenure atthe University1. Because he had only one majorpublication.2. And it was in Hebrew.3. And it had no cited references.4. And it wasn't published in arefereed journal or even submitted for peer review.5. And some even doubt he wroteit himself.6. It may be true that he createdthe world but what has he done since?7. His cooperative efforts havebeen quite limited.8. The scientific community hashad a very rough time trying to replicate his results.9. He never applied to the EthicsBoard for permission to use human subjects.10. When one experiment went awry,he tried to cover it up by drowning the subjects.11. When subjects didn't behaveas predicted, he often punished them, or just deleted them from the sample.12. He rarely came to class, justtold students to read the book.13. He had his son teach the class.14. He expelled his first two studentsfor learning.15. Although there were only tenrequirements, most students failed his tests.16. His office hours were infrequentand usually held on a mountain top.A sure fire way to determine ifsomeone is an economist: Ask the suspect "what's the difference betweenignorance and indifference?" If the reply is "I don't know and I don'tcare" you can be pretty sure its an economist. Now the only question iswhat to do with him. If an economist and an IRS agent were both drowning and you could onlysave one of them, would you go to lunch or read the paper? The National Institute of Health (NIH) announced that they were goingto start using economists instead of rats in their experiments. Naturally,the American Agricultural Economics Association was outraged and filedsuit, but NIH presented some compelling reasons for the switch:1) NIH lab assistants become veryattached to their rats. This emotional involvement was interfering withthe research being conducted. No such attachment could form for an economist.2) Economists breed faster.3) Economists are much cheaper tocare for and PETA won't object regardless of the experiment.4) There are some things even ratswon't do.However, it is difficult to extrapolatetest results to human beings. How many economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?1. Just one, but it really gets screwed.2. One to prepare the proposal,an econometrician to run the model, one each MS and PhD students to writethe theses and dissertations, two more to prepare the journal article (seniorauthorship not assigned), four to review it, and at least as many to refinethe model and replicate the results. Why do economists carry their diplomas on their dashboards?So they can park in the (morally/intellectually)handicapped parking. A guy walks into a DC curio shop. While browsing he comes across anexquisite brass rat. "What a great gag gift" he thinks to himself. Afterdickering with the shop keeper over the price, the man purchases the ratand leaves. As he's walking down the street, he hears scurrying noisesbehind him. Stopping and looking around, he sees hundreds, then thousandsof rats pouring out of the alleys and stairwells into the street behindhim. In a panic he runs down the street with the rats not far behind. Thestreet ends at a pier; he runs to the end of the pier and heaves the brassrat into the Potomac. All of the rats scurry past him into the river wherethey drown. After breathing a sigh of relief and wiping his brow, the manheads back to the curio shop, finds the shop keeper and asks, "Do you haveany brass economists?" TEN THINGS TO DO WITH A GRADUATE ECONOMICS TEXTBOOK1. Press pretty flowers.2. Press pretty insects.3. Use it as paper weight on youralready overcluttered desk.4. Leave out in obvious places toimpress uninformed undergraduates.5. Mail to the White House as anintimidation tactic.6. Give it a walk-on part in a boringEuropean existentialist play.7. Just throw the damn thing away.8. Leave out for the rain and otherforces of nature to reckon with.9. Read it (ha ha ha), and weep.10. Get a refund from bookstoreso you can buy weekend's beer supply. How can you tell when an economist is lying?His lips are moving. Why won't sharks attack economists?Professional courtesy. Q: What do you get when you cross the Godfather with an economist?A: An offer you can't understand. Q: How many economists does it take to change a light bulb?A: Hell, you need a whole departmentof them just to prepare the research grant. They say that Christopher Columbus was the first economist. When heleft to discover America, he didn't know where he was going. When he gotthere he didn't know where he was. And it was all done on a governmentgrant. A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did fora living. "Tim, you be first. What does your mother do all day?"Tim stood up and proudly said, "She'sa doctor.""That's wonderful. How about you,Amy?"Amy shyly stood up, scuffed herfeet and said, "My father is a mailman.""Thank you, Amy" said the teacher."What does your parent do, Billy?"Billy proudly stood up and announced,1. "Nothing. He's an economist."2. "My daddy plays piano in a whorehouse."The teacher was aghast and went to Billy's house and rang the bell. Billy'sfather answered the door. The teacher explained what his son had said anddemanded an explanation. Billy's dad said, "I'm actually an economist.How can I explain a thing like that to a seven-year-old?" A Berkeley economist died and went to heaven (No, that's not the joke).There were thousands of people ahead of him in line to see St. Peter. Tohis surprise, St. Peter left his desk at the gate and came down the longline to where the economist was, and greeted him warmly. St. Peter tookthe economist up to the front of the line, and into a comfortable chairby his desk. The economist said, "I like all this attention, but what makesME so special?" St. Peter replied, "Well, I've added up all the hours forwhich you billed your consultation clients, and by my calculation you're193 years old!" A Chicago economist died in poverty and many local futures tradersdonated to a fund for his funeral. The president of (the Merc, the Boardof Trade, etc.) was asked to donate a dollar. "Only a buck?" said the president,"only a dollar to bury an economist? Here's a check; go bury 1000 of them." An economist and a physician had a dispute over precedence. They referredit to Diogenes, who gave it in favor of the economist as follows: "Letthe thief go first, and the executioner follow." What's the difference between mathematics and economics?Mathematics is incomprehensible;economics just doesn't make any sense. A judge was hearing a drunk-driving case and the defendant, who hadboth a record and a reputation for driving under the influence, demandeda jury trial. It was nearly 4 p.m. and getting a jury would take time,so the judge called a recess and went out in the hall looking to empanelanyone available. He found a dozen economists and told them that they werea jury. The economists thought this would be a novel experience (none hadever been at a trial before, except as a defendent or an expert witness)and followed the judge into the courtroom. The trial was over in about10 minutes and it was very clear that the defendant was guilty. The jurywent into the jury-room, the judge started getting ready to go home, andeveryone waited. After three hours, the judge sent the bailiff into thejury- room to see what was holding up the verdict. When the bailiff returned,the judge said, "Well, have they arrived at a verdict yet?" The bailiffshook his head and said, "Verdict? Hell, Judge, they're still doing nominatingspeeches for the foreman's position!" For three years, the young assistant professor took his vacations ata country inn. He had an affair with the innkeeper's daughter. Lookingforward to an exciting few days, he dragged his suitcase up the stairsof the inn, then stopped short. There sat his lover with an infant on herlap! "Why didn't you write when you learned you were pregnant?" he cried."I would have rushed up here, we could have gotten married, and the childwould have my name!" "Well," she said, "when my folks found out about mycondition, we sat up all night talkin' and talkin' and we finally decidedit would be better to have a bastard in the family than an economist." Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, a practical economist, and an old drunkare walking down the street together when they simultaneously spot a hundreddollar bill. Who gets it? The old drunk, of course, the other three aremythological creatures. A Harvard economist had a summer house in the Maine woods. Each summerhe'd invite a different friend (no, that's not the punch line) to spenda week or two. On one occasion, he invited a Czechoslovakian to stay withhim. They had a splendid time in the country - rising early and livingin the great outdoors. Early one morning they went out to pick berriesfor their morning breakfast. As they went around the berry patch alongcame two huge bears. The economist dashed for cover. His friend wasn'tso lucky and the male bear reached him and swallowed him whole. The economistran back to his car, drove to town as fast has he could, and got the sheriff.The sheriff grabbed his rifle and dashed back to the berry patch with theeconomist. Sure enough, both bears were still there. "He's in THAT one!"cried the economist, pointing to the male. The sheriff looked at the bears,and without batting an eye, leveled his gun, took careful aim, and SHOTTHE FEMALE. "Whatd'ya do that for?!" exclaimed the economist, "I said hewas in the other!" "Yep," said the sheriff, "and would YOU believe a economistwho told you that the Czech was in the Male?" WASHINGTON DC GOVERNMENT ECONOMIST HUNTING REGULATIONS AND BAG LIMITSGENERAL1. Any person with a valid WashingtonDC hunting license or a Federal Income Tax Return may harvest governmenteconomists.2. Taking of economists with trapsor deadfalls is permitted. The use of currency as bait is prohibited.3. Killing of economists with avehicle is prohibited. If one is accidentally struck, remove the dead economistto side of the road and proceed to the nearest car wash.4. It is unlawful to chase, herd,or harvest economists from limousines, Mercedes Benz's, the Metro, or Porsches.5. It shall be unlawful to shout"research contract" or "I need a policy consultant" for the purpose oftrapping economists.6. It shall be unlawful to hunteconomists within 100 feet of government buildings.7. It shall be unlawful to use decisionmemos, draft legislation, conference reports, or RFP's to attract economists.8. It shall be unlawful to hunteconomists within 200 feet of Senate or House hearing rooms, libraries,whorehouses, massage parlors, special interest group offices, bars, orstrip joints.9. If an economist is elected togovernment office, it shall be a felony to hunt, trap, or possess it. Itwill also be a shame.10. Stuffed or mounted economistsmust have a DC Health Department inspection certificate for rabies andvermin.11. It shall be illegal for a hunterto disguise as a reporter, drug dealer, pimp, female congressional aid,sheep, legislator, policy maker, bookie, lobbyist, or tax accountant forthe purpose of hunting economists.BAG LIMITS1. Econometrician: 22. Two-faced Policy Analyst: 13. Macro Policy Wonk: 44. Big-mouthed Populist: 25. Relevant Economist: EXTINCT6. Cut-throat Administration Seeker: 27. Back-stabbing Senior Author: 28. Brown-nosed Deputy Kisser: 29. Silver-tongued Congressional Consultant:; $100 BOUNTY10. Wise-assed CivilLibertarian: 7 11. Staff economist:NO LIMITGiven 1000 economists, therewill be 10 theoretical economists with different theories on how to changethe light bulb and 990 empirical economists laboring to determine whichtheory is the *correct* one, and everyone will still be in the dark.That's all folks!You are my guest  since the creation of the page if we assume that this page was accessed100,000 times October 24, 1994 - March 17, 1996. Which IS a reasonableand prudent assumption. Thecounter, however, counts only the visits when you load pictures! Jokes about lawyers, blondes and many others can be foundfor example from variousHumor Archives like Jokes andHumour. Other resourcesfor economists and theoreticalmusings are also available. But the oneand only economist jokes page is this! Beware of imitations. My Real Home PagePlease send inmore jokes to list or your comments. Because I work elsewhere the possibilitiesfor the administration of this page are limited. 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