What are the classic jokes in the field of economics?

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What is investment banking?

An investment banking rookie asked: "What is investment banking?" The senior took some rotten fruits and asked him: "How do you plan to sell these fruits?" The rookie thought for a long time and said: "I follow the market Dispose of it at a discount." The senior shook his head, picked up a fruit knife, peeled and cut the rotten fruits into pieces, and made a beautiful fruit platter: "In this way, we can sell them at dozens of times the price."

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Long-term investment

An 8-year-old girl came to the melon garden to buy melons with three cents of money. The melon farmer saw that she had too little money and thought The little girl was fooled into leaving, pointing to a small melon that had not yet grown up, and said: "Three cents can only buy that small melon." The girl agreed and happily handed the money to the melon farmer. The farmer was surprised: "This melon is not yet ripe." , how do you want to eat it?" Girl: "If you pay the money, the melon will belong to me. I will come and get it when it grows up."

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" The origin of "There is no free lunch"

This sentence was first put forward by the economics master Friedman. Its original meaning is that even if you don't have to pay to eat, you still have to pay the price. Because the time you spend eating this meal can be used to do other things, such as negotiating a 1 million business deal. If you use your time to eat this meal, you will lose the value that it originally had. This is the concept of opportunity cost. Did you know it before?

4

Economics Jokes

In class, the professor taught economics: "What is the primary industry?" "Feeding cattle and raising sheep. What is the secondary industry? Killing cattle and slaughtering sheep. What is the tertiary industry? Eating beef and drinking sheep soup." A student asked: "What about the cultural industry?" The professor's eyes lit up: "Ask. Well done! You are indeed my good student." Then he replied: "The so-called cultural industry is just bragging and showing off!"

5

Poor people's tax

There is a saying in economics called "poor man's tax". The most typical one is that most people who buy lottery tickets are poor (brothers who often buy lottery tickets, don't mind). This is a way to achieve a dramatic increase in wealth within their affordability and payment ability. There is little chance of increasing, but the probability of winning the lottery is small after all. In the long run, if the water flows slowly, if there is more money coming out and less money coming in, it will be treated as tax.

6

Pareto distribution

Arrange the wealth owned by everyone in the world from largest to smallest. On one side is a slender but towering On the other side is a long, endless, low and despairing tail. This kind of distribution is called "Pareto distribution" in economics.

7

Unprofitable investment

"Please give an example of what unprofitable investment is." asked the economics professor. "Take your sister out to play." A male student replied.

8

The concept of mate selection

An American economist published a paper analyzing the concept of mate selection from a transactional perspective. If men and women are divided into four levels of excellence, ABCD, then the current situation is that man A wants to find woman B, man B wants to find woman C, man C wants woman D, so only man D is left. On the contrary, the situation is different for women, that is, women ABCD all want to find man A. The final result is that female A and male D are left. There is a case in economics: two people encounter a bear in the forest, then the opponent will not be a bear! As long as they are one step faster than the other person, they will win.

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Game theory and pursuit of life

If four boys are chasing a beautiful girl, then she will definitely put on airs and ignore anyone. . At this time, if a boy pursues another girl, others will not accept it, because no one wants to be a defective product. However, if the four of them chase other girls first, the pretty girl will be isolated, and it will be much easier to chase her again. ——Mathematical master Nash’s simplest expression of game theory.

10

The Four Principles of Pleasure and Pain

Which one should I choose? Pick up 75 yuan at a time, or pick up 50 yuan first and then 25 yuan? Lose 75 yuan at a time, and Throw 50 yuan first and then 25 yuan. Which one should you choose? Experiments have shown that most people choose to pick up ￥75 separately and throw ￥75 together.

This is the four principles of happiness and pain in economics: ①n good news should be released separately; ②n bad news should be released together; ③A big bad news and a small good news should be announced separately; ④A big good news and a small good news should be announced separately. Small bad news, announced together.

11

Parking

A rich man went to a Wall Street bank to borrow a loan of 5,000 yuan. The loan period was two weeks. The bank loan must be secured. He stopped using it. The Rolls-Royce at the door was mortgaged. The bank clerk parked his Rolls-Royce in the underground garage and lent the rich man 5,000 yuan. Two weeks later, the rich man came to pay back the money, and the interest was ***15 yuan. The bank clerk found that the rich man had tens of millions of dollars in his account, and asked why he still wanted to borrow money. The rich man said: You will never find a parking lot on Wall Street for $15 for two weeks.

12

Online chat

When you decide to chat online, it is called starting a business; when you look up, there are so many MM, which is called great market potential; but GG is also Quite a few, this is called fierce competition; you decide to attract the attention of beautiful women, this is called positioning; you say you are handsome and rich, this is called hype; you ask "Who wants to chat with me", this is called advertising; you ask "Yes" Are you a beauty?" This is called market research; if 200 people answered "I am a beauty" at the same time, this is called a bubble economy.

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Economics Joke: If there are 2 cows

United States: Sell 1 cow, buy back 1 male, the herd will grow, Benefits increase, and finally sell and retire. France: Go on strike because you want 3 cows. Japan: Create cartoon cows and sell them all over the world. Germany: Genetically modified cows can live 100 years and produce 10 barrels of milk per day. UK: Then everyone went crazy. Russia: Count once, 5 heads, count again, 10 heads, bother, open the third bottle of vodka...

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Happiness Formula

Economics There is a formula in: happiness = utility: expected value. If your boyfriend gets a bonus of 1,000 yuan, but you expect him to buy you a LV bag worth 10,000 yuan, 1,000 divided by 10,000, the happiness level is only 0.1. But if your expectation is to have your boyfriend treat you to a Western meal for 200 yuan, divide 1,000 by 200, and your happiness level is 5. To achieve happiness in love, it's best not to let desire affect your life.