How to pronounce “baum” in English

Frank Baum's children's book, "The Wonderful Wiz of Oz."

Yoram Bauman: Thank you for that lovely introduction. The setup was a bit long, but the punch line

Yoram Bauman: What's the funniest thing that I've found on Google.

Yoram Bauman: I don't have a mailing list for my research.

Yoram Bauman: Do you want to hear more jokes?

Yoram Bauman: That was good, but I need you guys to dig down and find your inner red meat okay? Put yourselves in the mind frame of people

Yoram Bauman: That was okay. You guys on the left wing, though -- you guys are perfect. Because while the right wing was chanting

Yoram Bauman: -- when the world is full of pistol-packing pot heads.

Yoram Bauman: Nice work, left wing. I can't believe I have to give a disclaimer before asking for a round of applause for the troops, but the political situation in

Yoram Bauman: It's got instructions right on the back.

In 1900, Frank Baum writes a book.

And there's a great economist called William Baumol, who invented the notion of something called "Baumol's disease," which is essentially that productivity

a great researcher by the name of Diana Baumrind, came up with what she says is the ultimate style of parenting and she actually calls it authoritative parenting. It is a deep supply

statistically, according to Diana Baumrind. Yeah, go ahead.

Whoo! Yoram Bauman: Yeah, thank you. Now, I don't know how much you all know about the world of stand-up comedy, but let me just tell you this, people.

Any questions? Yoram Bauman: I suppose I should plug my website too.

Q Anybody else? Yoram Bauman: I can just tell more jokes for 15 minutes.

Q Anybody else? Yoram Bauman: I could do ten more minutes of comedy unless you have questions.

Yeah, Yoram Bauman: All right. Can I do magic tricks? I don't do magic tricks.

wing. Yoram Bauman: That was a little better, but when I did this in Texas last month, they started chanting "USA." I want you to do that for me. You guys are

The author of "Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum.

And then, the work of Willi Baum, which really stands out visually.

I think my third or fourth day there-- they found a bacterial infection called Acinetobacter baumannii, which is normally a hospital-acquired bacteria that

Microsoft were cold businessmen. Gates and Baumer and company wanted to destroy

So it's based on the L. Frank Baum books, as you mentioned before.

And I found out that all of L. Frank Baum's stories, he wrote all of "The Wizard of Oz" stories, were now public domain.

It really began in the 2000s, when I was working with the Bauman Foundation to write books and create the Being Human initiative-- you

Hypothesis." Modestly, because I could have called it "The Bauman-Lucas Hypothesis." Let me show you what it says graphically.

So yeah, I was fed on a steady diet of like L. Frank Baum and like Piers Anthony books as a kid.

This was an artwork by an artist named Willi Baum, where he's utilizing visual modernism to depict the idea of agriculture

Here's another Willi Baum.

Yeah. Related to what we have been just discussing, John Baumgardner is asking, since language is simply encoded meaning and meaning is nonmaterial,

Hal Varian: Okay, I'm Hal Varian. I'm the chief economist here at Google, and it's my pleasure to introduce Yoram Bauman. He claims to be the world's only "stand-up

So, with that, I would like to introduce -- not the assistant professor, not the associate professor, not the full professor -- the dean of economic comedy -- Yoram Bauman.

Lucas a few minutes ago. He won the Nobel Prize for his work on Rational Expectations. So, I have what I modestly call "The Lucas-Bauman

But if we look at our level of understanding of the macroeconomy, , it's been flat. The Lucas-Bauman Hypothesis explains why.