The economist Stephen T. Ziliak is also a haikuist. As he writes in Poetry magazine, using haiku helps add “feelings to economics.” The gist:?”I was teaching economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology when I made the haiku-economics connection. I needed to connect with 225 economics, science, and engineering majors-college kids who were being trained to believe that poetry and feelings are not important to, say, the World Bank. At the same time I was reading?The Essential Etheridge Knight and falling in love with haiku. I thought about the inability of standard economic models to explain bubbles, crashes, and global inequality-and how market fundamentalists refuse to discuss them.”?[%comments]
Haiku and the Invisible Hand
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An estate agent (I think maybe in the States that is a ‘real estate agent?) in Brighton employed a haikuist to train the staff. Now all of the descriptions of the premises are written in haiku and they claim that their sales times have been greatly reduced by it and that all properties get more viewings.
A “haikuist” is a haijin.
Springs and falls in wants
Can make ecomomists think
Things are getting verse
Unemployment blues..
In the winter’s frosty pane
I scratch out my name.
Fundamentals changed!
Reason denies the bubble –
Until it goes BOOM!
An economist thought he was grand.
He wrote haikus so we’d understand
About interest rates, trade,
How incentives persuade,
And to learn ’bout supply and demand.
old pond still and calm
leaping frog comes flying out
splashing water rings
— Basho
Haikus are easy
But they don’t always make sense
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