January 3, 2010
An Economist Stands Up for a Less Dismal Science
Daniel Sheehan for The Chronicle
The U. of Washington's Yoram Bauman bills himself as "the world's only stand-up economist."
Seattle
An economist who works the comedy clubs thinks his audiences deserve an explanation.
So as soon as Yoram Bauman gets to the microphone, he tells a couple of dozen patrons gathered in the Comedy Underground: "I spent five years in graduate school getting a Ph.D. in economics and then decided to try my hand at stand-up comedy.
"You can imagine how proud my father is.
"He was a German Jew who never watched television. He said, 'Give me the name of a single Jew who's ever
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