Economical humour

A brief wander into the things that make some economists smile:

Call me a masochist but one of the great pleasures of being at George Mason is that I am regularly insulted by Gordon Tullock. You have to undestand, however, that in my profession not to have been insulted by Gordon is to be a nobody.

In anycase, here is one from yesterday.

"Gordon," I asked, "do you think we should ban child labor?" "No, keep working."

The other day Gordon asked me to read one of his papers and I pointed out a few typos. "Excellent," he said, "this will surely be your greatest contribution to economics."