Its seen as increasingly important that PhD people in Economics develop transferrable skills to facilitate employment across sectors other than academia. I wonder will stand-up comedy skills count in this agenda.
Introducing the world's first stand-up economist.
http://www.standupeconomist.com/
his interpretation of Mankiw's principles is below
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVp8UGjECt4
funny but i remind people of a certain nerd's joke in econometrics lecture
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On a previous post on this blog, I mentioned that mafia killers are now arming themselves with degrees, many in economics.
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Maybe they'd be keen to hire a PhD economist to advise on the running of the empire?
The full link is:
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