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 Apocalypse in 2012!
Flavored Suicide Pills.
–I Kid Because I Love!
Credit default swaps,
Lazy ratings agencies,
I can’t sell my house
Economists laid
end-to-end girdle the earth
Still no two agree
Snow falls blanket City
Winter Wonderland Landscape
Yes, Cannibalism.
Now that you mention it, Twittering is a form of unstructured haiku, I believe–you must say what you want in so many letters (versus syllables, etc.).
I remember that during the Nixon administration, there was some attempt to rein in all the long memos. Basically, if a person couldn’t put their idea on a SINGLE, double-spaced paper, it wasn’t read.
I bet the Tax Code would be greatly improved if we used haiku:
All that you bring home
Pay one-tenth to Uncle Sam.
Now everyone’s happy.
Easing raises costs
Uncertainty makes me save
Deflation happens