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The latest from the excellent Yoram Bauman. Do check out his cartoon guides to economics.
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The latest from the excellent Yoram Bauman. Do check out his cartoon guides to economics.
The RSA have edited highlights of my talk on Monday, introducing some of the ideas behind “Adapt”.

It’s “Adapt: The Movie.” Well, almost.
“Adapt” is being published in the US this week, so here’s a sneak preview of some of the ideas.
I know a lot of you have been waiting for this – the “Fight of the Century” between Keynes and Hayek, and congratulations to John Papola and Russ Roberts for transforming the way economics is communicated:
Personally I prefer the first video, “Fear the Boom and Bust”:
Funnier, and the Hayekian sympathies of its creators are conveyed with a bit more subtlety. Nevertheless the world of economics communication is a better place with these rapping titans in it.
Your thoughts?
Emphatically not safe for work, but something of a modern classic, recommended to me by one of the UK’s most eminent medical statisticians…
Steve Ziliak, haiku economist and co-author of The Cult of Statistical Significance, points me to this geeky but splendid video about a much-misunderstood subject:
Steve’s a guest on this week’s More or Less. Here’s an earlier piece about his work, although I am worried that I may have got some of the technical details wrong.
My talk at TEDx Warwick is now online – a sneak preview of Chapter Two of Adapt.

If you enjoyed today’s Outside Edge from a rationally alcoholic tramp, you may enjoy my lunch interview with Gary Becker, Nobel laureate and co-founder of the theory of rational addiction.
And here’s a more subversive take on the theory – not safe for work:

Marketplace worked with me to produce this video about the economics of signalling in the workplace. They did a fantastic job, and you even get to hear my David Attenborough impression. The video is loosely based on one of the Dear Economist letters. Enjoy!