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ISBN
9780472065295
Book Title
On the Third Hand : Wit and Humor in the Dismal Science
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
1996
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Caroline Postelle Clotfelter
Genre
Literary Criticism, Business & Economics, Humor
Topic
General, Economics / General, Humor
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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If ever you suspected that economic humor is an oxymoron, read on. This anthology, offering over a hundred selections of economic humor in the form of essays, fables, cartoons, verses, parodies, and epigrams drawn from works ancient and modern, will disabuse you of that notion by way of laughter. The contributors, about evenly divided between economists and noneconomists, share a common urge to poke fun at economics and its practitioners. Their styles and methods, however, range from kind and gentle to mordant and misanthropic; this is not surprising given the diversity of their professions: diplomat, playwright, printer's devil, publisher, columnist, physician, inventor, minister, corporate president, radio star, New York Stock Exchange member, and philosopher, to name but a few. Bringing economic humor into the light of day, Caroline Clotfelter gathers her collection of materials into recognizable categories: economists as others see them, the language and methods of economics, Econ 101, micro- and macroeconomics, and basic economic models and ideas. Aiding and abetting her include such luminaries as John Stuart Mill, George Bernard Shaw, Mad Magazine, Stephen Leacock, Emily Dickinson, Rube Goldberg, Pogo, and John Kenneth Galbraith. As no other, this book will challenge economists to enjoy jokes at their own expense; noneconomists may have even less difficulty finding something funny in this most dismal of sciences. Caroline Postelle Clotfelter, former Professor of Economics, Mercer University, is now retired.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Michigan Press
ISBN-10
0472065297
ISBN-13
9780472065295
eBay Product ID (ePID)
369513

Product Key Features

Book Title
On the Third Hand : Wit and Humor in the Dismal Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Topic
General, Economics / General, Humor
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Business & Economics, Humor
Author
Caroline Postelle Clotfelter
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition
20
Lccn
96-041214
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
330/.0207
Lc Classification Number
Pn6231.E295o65 1996
Copyright Date
1996

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