Ludo Dawnay | Features Editor A tourist on Fifty-Seventh Street, Manhattan stops Jascha Heifetz to ask him, “Could you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?” “Yes,” replied the violinist assuringly. “Practice!”ADVERTISEMENT This gag was repeated by Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics at Princeton University, in his acceptance address to the Phil. The Nobel Prize winner was discussing making economics accessible in his New York Times column. Economists, it can be assumed, aren’t very funny. The biggest laugh I’ve ever experienced in a lecture was when Andrew Somerville mentioned heroin. He wasn’t even making a joke. Yoram Bauman, the self-claimed ‘the world’s first and … Continue reading An Economist Walks Into A Bar