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Many versions of the same joke

  • Sep 23, 2009
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The New Yorker Economy in Cartoons is a pleasant little collection of jokes about wealth.

The collections crosses era after era, we see the excess of the 20's the Crash of the 30, the war in the 40s and the ups and downs that follow.

In terms of the quality of the cartoons themselves we see the subtle changes in style as the decades pass but the quality is always there.. Until the 80's these variations are small but once we get toward the end of the 20th century the styles become more recognizable to the modern eye.

The actual jokes are almost totally constant, jibes about wealth, about woman and the tax man. Those jokes remain constant as in every era the rich remain and it's interesting how a person from almost any era would get those jokes they are timeless.

One thing that caught me unawares was how similar the depression cartoons were to the 2009 cartoons, again the jokes were the same and people would get them without a problem.

The one difference was the lack of jumping off a ledge jokes as you get further along the path of the modern politically correct days.

You will enjoy this walk through history and your guests will too.

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The New Yorkerhas been at the forefront of social commentary since it was first published in 1925. Even when the markets have been down, its famous single-panel cartoons have found a way to add humor to the economic landscape.

In On the Money, fans can revel in over 350 of The New Yorker's best cartoons on the theme of money, culled from the past 80+ years. From bossy businessmen to crooked creditors to slighted stockholders, no one in the financial world has escaped humorously critical jabs from the master of cartoon humor. The collection is edited by The New Yorker's cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, and includes an introduction by the best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell.

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ISBN-10: 0740784900
ISBN-13: 978-0740784903
Author: The New Yorker
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

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