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20 Dec
Economists

Date: Tue, 20 Dec 94 20:16:39 PST
To: Fun_People
Subject: Economists

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[These were stolen from http://www.cs.odu.edu/~cashman/joke.html.
 Other joke web pages are accessible through that page.]
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Two men are flying in a hot air balloon. The wind is ugly and they come away
from their course and they have no idea where they are.  So they go down to
20 m above ground to ask a passing man.  "Could you tell us where we are?"
"You are in a balloon" says the man.  So one pilot says: "Your answer is
perfectly right and absolutely useless. You must be an economist" "Yes, and
you must be businessmen", answers the man.  "Thats right!  How did you know?"
"You have a great view from where you are, yet you don't know where you are!"
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Q: How many Chicago School economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None.  If the light bulb needed changing, the market would have already
   done it.
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Q: How many mainstream economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to change the bulb and one to assume the existence of ladders.
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Q:  How many conservative economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A1: None.  The darkness will cause the light bulb to change by itself.
A2: None.  If the government would just leave it alone, it would screw
itself in.
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The above light bulb jokes were stolen from an article in "The Wharton
Journal," Feb.  21, 1994, by Selena Maranjian, who undoubtedly pilfered the
humor from someone else.  Selena also suggested (for you B-school types):
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Q: How many Wharton MBAs does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one, if you hire me. I can actually change the light bulb by myself.
   As you can see from my resume, I've had extensive experience changing
   light bulbs in my previous positions.  I've also been named to the
   Wharton Light Bulb list, and am presently a teaching assistant for Light
   Bulb Management 666.  My only weakness is that I'm compulsive about
   changing light bulbs in my spare time.
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Q: How many B-school doctoral students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: I'm writing my dissertation on that topic; I should have an answer for
   you in about 5 years.
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Q: Why did God create economists ?
A: In order to make weather forecasters look good.
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Q; What's the difference between an accountant and an economist?
A: An Economist is someone who didn't have enough personality to become an
   accountant.
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Q: What's the difference between a finance major and an economics major?
A: Opportunity Cost
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An economist, a philosopher, a biologist, and an architect were arguing
about what was God's real profession.  The philosopher said, "Well, first
and foremost, God is a philosopher because he created the principles by
which man is to live." "Ridiculous!" said the biologist "Before that, God
created man and woman and all living things so clearly he was a biologist."
"Wrong," said the architect.  "Before that, he created the heavens and the
earth.  Before that, there was only complete confusion and chaos!" "Well,"
said the economist, "where do you think the confusion and chaos came from?"
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The First Law of Economists:
    For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.

The Second Law of Economists:
    They're both wrong.
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We have 2 classes of forecasters:    Those who don't know ... and those who
don't know they don't know.
        - John Kenneth Galbraith

© 1994 Peter Langston