Economics Jokes / Recent Jokes

1. Economists are armed and dangerous: “Watch out for our invisible hands. ” 2. Economists can supply it on demand. 3. You can talk about money without every having to make any. 4. Mick Jagger and Arnold Schwarzenegger both studied economics and look how they turned out. 5. When you are in the unemployment line, at least you will know why you are there. 6. If you rearrange the letters in “ECONOMICS”, you get “COMIC NOSE”. 7. Although ethics teaches that virtue is its own reward, in economics we get taught that reward is its own virtue. 8. When you get drunk, you can tell everyone that you are just researching the law of diminishing marginal utility. 9. When you call 1-900-LUV-ECON and get Kandi Keynes, you will have something to talk about.

Approval Seeker's Law: Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least. - Washington writer Rozanne Weissman
The Aquinas Axiom: What the gods get away with, the cows don't.
Army Axiom: Any order that can be misunderstood has been misunderstood.
Arnold's Laws of Documentation: (1) If it should exist, it doesn't. (2) If it does exist, it's out of date. (3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.
Astrology Laws: It's always the wrong time of the month. - Rozanne Weissman
Avery's Rule of Three: Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house the next job after a series of three is not the fourth job - it's the start of a brand new series of three.
Baer's Quartet: What's good politics is bad economics; what's bad politics is good economics; what's good economics is bad politics; what's bad economics is good politics. - Eugene Baer (Baer also allows that it can be restated somewhat more compactly more...

1. Economists are armed and dangerous: "Watch out for our invisible hands."

2. Economists can supply it on demand.

3. You can talk about money without every having to make any.

4. You get to say "trickle down" with a straight face.

5. Mick Jagger and Arnold Schwarzenegger both studied economics and look how they turned out.

6. When you are in the unemployment line, at least you will know why you are there.

7. If you rearrange the letters in "ECONOMICS", you get "COMIC NOSE".

8. Although ethics teaches that virtue is its own reward, in economics we get taught that reward is its own virtue.

9. When you get drunk, you can tell everyone that you are just researching the law of diminishing marginal utility.

10. When you call 1-900-LUV-ECON and get Kandi Keynes, you will have something to talk about.

General Education:
GE101:
Why the Toilet Seat Has Hinges
GE102:
How to Drive a Nail Without Breaking One
GE103:
Why Going to the Bathroom is Not a Group Activity
GE104:
Why a Bad Sports Telecast is Better Than a Good Soap Opera
Driver's Education:
DE101:
Getting Past Automatic Transmission
DE102:
The Meaning of Blinking Red Lights
DE103:
Approximating a Constant Speed
DE104:
Makeup and Driving-It's As Simple As Oil and Water
DE105:
How to Parallel Park
DE106:
Road Maps and Other Crutches for Spineless Wimps
Economics:
EC101:
Checkbook Balancing (formerly "Remedial Third Grade Arithmetic")
EC102:
How to Avoid Spending Money You Don't Have (formerly "How to Cut
Credit Cards in Half")
EC103:
How to Earn Your Own Money
Home Economics:
HE101a:
Over-Laundering - Why Clothing Wears Out Prematurely
HE101b:
Over-Vacuuming - Why Carpets Wear more...

What would Economics be without assumptions? Accounting

Baer's Quartet: What's good politics is bad economics; what's bad politics is good economics; what's good economics is bad politics; what's bad economics is good politics. - Eugene Baer (Baer also allows that it can be restated somewhat more compactly as "What's good politics is bad economics and vice versa, vice versa.")

Ten things to do with a graduate Economics textbook 1. Press pretty flowers. 2. Press pretty insects. 3. Use it as paper weight on your already overcluttered desk. 4. Leave out in obvious places to impress uninformed undergraduates. 5. Mail to the White House as an intimidation tactic. 6. Give it a walk-on part in a boring European existentialist play. 7. Just throw the lousy thing away. 8. Leave out for the rain and other forces of nature to reckon with. 9. Read it, and weep. 10. Get a refund from bookstore so you can buy a weekend’s beer supply.