Econ Memes

by on July 18, 2012 at 12:51 pm in Economics, Education, Games | Permalink

Art Carden has created a page of econ-related memes. Here is one of my favorites:

The Most Interesting Man In The World




 

24 comments

Alex Godofsky July 18, 2012 at 1:03 pm

Never reason from a price change! Maybe the price fell *because* he was drinking less of it.

Kyle July 18, 2012 at 5:01 pm

I presume he’s too small to affect the price.

The real question is: When has the price of beer ever gone down?

Jay July 18, 2012 at 6:42 pm

A very brief period in 1993 and 1998. But that is only for beer purchased for home consumption. The price of beer consumed away from home (bars, restaurants, etc) has always gone up since BLS started keeping records in the 1980s.

Rich Berger July 18, 2012 at 1:44 pm

Pretty funny. I was going to say ‘let the quibbling begin”, but it’s already started.

Mofo. July 19, 2012 at 8:11 am

Technically its not quibbling, its nitpicking.

Clark July 22, 2012 at 10:26 pm

This response is simply genius!

Sam July 18, 2012 at 2:21 pm

Dos equis is sorta undermining the luxuriousness of their brand. If he is really the most interesting man in the world you’d think he’d stick to veblen goods.

Anonymous coward July 18, 2012 at 2:32 pm

It’s not a meme, it’s just a silly captioned photograph. If this, or any of the other photos, go viral on 4chan and stay that way for a week or four, then it will be worthy of the name “meme”, but the chances are remote, to put it mildly.

FXKLM July 18, 2012 at 2:40 pm

Captions over those particular photographs are the memes. These specific captions are just individual expressions of the meme.

Mofo. July 18, 2012 at 2:41 pm

Its the image macro in general that is the meme, not this one in particular.

Right Wing-nut July 18, 2012 at 4:00 pm

The meme is actually the interplay between the picture and the caption. Each of the pictures has a title. Together, the picture and the title form the meme. If you post one of the photos with a caption that doesn’t work for the meme, you’ll get some variant of “That meme you keep using… I don’t think it means what you think it means.”

This guy knows his memes.

Mofo. July 18, 2012 at 2:38 pm

Scumbag steve seems like an obvious econ meme:

Understands comparative advantage

Complains about free trade anyway.

Etc etc.

av July 18, 2012 at 3:25 pm

Here you go: http://qkme.me/3q55v3

Hasdrubal July 18, 2012 at 4:17 pm

My favorite is the paired wealth creation memes.

Theo Clifford July 18, 2012 at 5:22 pm

A few of my own here:
http://tinyurl.com/bvvms9t

happyjuggler0 July 18, 2012 at 5:34 pm

Jodi Beggs has a few of her own on her blog:

http://www.economistsdoitwithmodels.com/2012/03/20/the-most-interesting-law-of-demand/

Steve Sailer July 18, 2012 at 6:00 pm

The Least Interesting Man in the World

Dain July 18, 2012 at 6:48 pm

+1

Jay July 18, 2012 at 6:36 pm

So, I don’t always hire workers, but when wages fall I hire more workers.

MkeC July 18, 2012 at 8:50 pm

Except when demand for my product has fallen further. DOH!

sergei July 18, 2012 at 6:45 pm

Shit economists say: https://twitter.com/econoverbia

Lucas July 18, 2012 at 7:21 pm

Beer could totally be a Giffen good.

Ray Lopez July 20, 2012 at 12:01 am

Nobody mentioned that beer must not be an inferior good then.

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