On March 20 at 4:15 in Pettengill G65, Keck Classroom, Yoram Bauman,\u201cthe world\u2019s first and only stand-up economist\u201d, presented his talk, Comedy, Economics, and Climate Change on March 20th, Thursday at 4:15 in Pettengill G52 (Keck Classroom).<\/p>\n
Yoram Bauman is “the world’s first and only stand-up economist” and he performs regularly at colleges and corporate events. His goals in life is to spread joy to the world through economics comedy; to reform economics education; and to implement carbon pricing, preferably through a revenue-neutral tax shift involving lower taxes on things we like (working, saving, investing) and higher taxes on things we don\u2019t like (e.g., carbon).\u00a0 For more information:\u00a0 http:\/\/standupeconomist.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Presented by the Economics Department and cosponsored by the Department of Politics, the Program in Environmental Studies and the Division of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On March 20 at 4:15 in Pettengill G65, Keck Classroom, Yoram Bauman,\u201cthe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}