For Eco friends and lovers: akosirap

akosirap

For Eco friends and lovers

Oct 25, 2007 18:09

Got this set of jokes from the standup economist site.
You might be an economist if...

...you refuse to sell your children because you think they'll be worth more later.
...you've ever gone to a bank or other financial institution in the hopes of getting a date.
...you're an expert on money but you dress like a flood victim (from an old Dilbert, I think)
...you watch "America's Next Top Model" and vote for Cournot. (Ken Heyer, DC)
...you can translate plain English into incomprehensible gibberish.
...you think that "supply and demand" is a good answer to the question, "Where do babies come from?"
...you plan to have your children born in December instead of January in order to maximize the discounted present value of the child tax credit.
...you understood that last joke. (Bonus points if you can cite Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Amitabh Chandra, 1999, "Taxes and the Timing of Births", JPE 107:161-77, or similar work from fellow UW grad JT Huang's doctoral dissertation.)
...you think the best evidence of global warming is not that every year the snows melt earlier or that every year the flowers bloom earlier but that every year the Christmas shopping season starts earlier.
...taxes piss you off because they're so inefficient.
...you read your fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant and put "at the margin" at the end of it. (If you don't understand this one and can't find an under-30 American to ask about it, just think to yourself: "It's about computers.")
...any of the following phrases has ever come to mind in a romantic situation: "joint utility maximization", "not tonight, honey, I have an externality", "diminishing marginal product of labor".
...you've spent your whole career at a university or other public sector job talking about how great the private sector is.
...you can't give blood because your veins are full of motor oil and little bits of endangered species.
...you've ever written a romance novel that included the following paragraph: "I put my left hand on her shoulder. I put my right hand on the small of her back. I put my invisible hand on her thigh."
... you never tip the waitress more than 6.45% because you have a precise understanding of just how our economy can suffer a burst of inflation is she went out to buy new shoes. (Terence Kelley, Nebraska)
...you think trust is so bad that you're anti-trust.

And the best part - from the JokEc site

A physicist, a chemist and an economist are 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 chemist says, "Lets build a fire and heat the can first." The economist says, "Lets assume that we have a can-opener..."