June 23, 2009
See you in the funny papers!
I can't possibly excerpt or link. Don Luskin has discovered, read, scanned, and commented on a circa-2000 comic book put out by the FOMC to describe its structure and operations.
All of it. Now.
Economics and Markets
Posted by John Kranz at June 23, 2009 12:00 PM
Such is the sad state of affairs in our public education system; after teething children on Sesame Street and raising them on a steady diet of MTV, the best we can muster up for students with the attention span of a ferret on crack cocaine is textbooks in the format of comics. I guess textbooks are more palatable when there are lots of pictures.
Maybe the only way to get our message out to the next generation of economists is to have Pixar produce Atlas Shrugged, or find an anime version of The Road to Serfdom.
Wait, what?
Such is the sad state of affairs in our public education system; after teething children on Sesame Street and raising them on a steady diet of MTV, the best we can muster up for students with the attention span of a ferret on crack cocaine is textbooks in the format of comics. I guess textbooks are more palatable when there are lots of pictures.
Maybe the only way to get our message out to the next generation of economists is to have Pixar produce Atlas Shrugged, or find an anime version of The Road to Serfdom.
Wait, what?
Posted by: Keith at June 23, 2009 12:47 PMAs an earlier post suggested, we'd have the best results with a 20-something Infobabe spokesperson with big hooties.
Posted by: Boulder Refugee at June 23, 2009 4:11 PMI stand corrected; hooties trump cartoons every time.
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Great. Now all I can think of is Jessica Rabbit teaching economics and civics.
Posted by: Keith at June 23, 2009 4:28 PMI'm not a strict constructionist, I'm just drawn that way.
Posted by: jk at June 23, 2009 4:38 PMDammit, Keith, you did it again - spluttered coffee all over the keyboard...
Posted by: Boulder Refugee at June 23, 2009 4:46 PMYou're not alone, Refugee - jk did it to me with the "just drawn that way" reference, so I guess my karma just caught up with me.
'Scuze me while I go for paper towels and Windex.
Posted by: Keith at June 23, 2009 6:30 PM | What do you think? [6]