Google can be a cruel, deflating thing. You come up with a great idea (like “the Stand-up Economist”, or “Arsebook”) and then, by googling, you discover that someone else with a greater talent has gotten there first. Or possibly second, but they got off their backside and actually did something about it.

So, hats off to Yoram Bauman. Yoram claims to be “the world’s first and only stand-up economist”. By chance, the Knackered Hackette and I also coined the title “the stand-up economist” a few years back. But we stuffed it away in a miscellaneous ideas file where it languished. Frankly, it wasn’t going to get off the starting blocks here at Knackered Towers as we were lacking the two principal incentives:- Continue reading ‘the stand-up economist’