This is my favorite video we’ve ever made at Econ Nerds. It’s exactly what I want an Econ Nerds video to be: it takes a piece of econ obscura and makes it understandable and, I hope, amusing.
Enjoy!
Notes
The video is based entirely on Doug Irwin’s paper.
My friend, and excellent actor, Chase Fein plays the mime. Almost everything you see is a first take: I talked, and Chase mimed. For more Chase, watch this.
I record these videos in my office at USC, where I’m a professor. I’m not sure what my colleagues thought about a full‑blown mime roaming the floor, but no one said anything.
I worked in every French word I knew and every famous French reference. See if you can spot them all!
