Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Transferrable Skills

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

3 comments:

Liam Delaney said...

funny but i remind people of a certain nerd's joke in econometrics lecture

http://www.overheardindublin.com/comment3.php?id=3790

Anonymous said...

On a previous post on this blog, I mentioned that mafia killers are now arming themselves with degrees, many in economics.

http://gearybehaviourcenter.blogspot.com/2008/01/mafia-killers-arm-themselves-with.html

Maybe they'd be keen to hire a PhD economist to advise on the running of the empire?

Anonymous said...

The full link is:

http://gearybehaviourcenter.blogspot.com/2008/01/ma

fia-killers-arm-themselves-with.html