Seattle resident Bauman is the world’s only stand-up economist. He got his start by writing a parody of a well-known economics book. He honed his gags with stand-up routines at Seattle’s Comedy Underground. Then he teamed up with Grady Klein, a terrific cartoonist, and the rest is history (the history of cartoon economics books, anyway). Their first collaboration, “The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume One: Microeconomics,” has been translated into nine languages. Publishers Weekly called Volume Two “clever, lucid, and lighthearted.” Bauman said this of why free markets continue to be great at generating new jobs: “There’s a panel in the cartoon book where you have a robot driver, and the woman in the back seat of the car says, look at all these people who can’t find jobs! The robot says, yes, ma’am, that’s a tragedy.” Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle Times
“THE CARTOON INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS: VOLUME TWO: MACROECONOMICS” Yoram Bauman, Hill & Wang, 240 pages, $17.95
