Greg Mankiw, an economics professor, wrote the textbook that I would like to use in my economics courses (sadly, the district has adopted a heavier, more verbose and more confusing text). Mankiw’s text is celebrated enough within the economics community that the self-styled “Stand-Up Economist,” Yoram Bouman, has created a comedy routine about Mankiw’s “Ten Principles of Economics.” Here’s the YouTube clip, and here’s the accompanying documentation.

If you have or are pursuing an economics degree, it’s pretty funny, which means most folks will find it lame.