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    If 2009 taught us anything, it’s that economics matters to everybody. But how many American voters have a thorough understanding of how economies really work?   Now, thanks to Yoram Bauman and Grady Klein, you don’t need a Ph.D. in economics to get a grasp on the news. Bauman, the world’s first and only stand-up economist, has teamed up with Klein, the cartoonist behind the Lost Colony graphic novels, to take the dismal out of the dismal science. From the optimizing individual to game theory to price theory, The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume 1: Microeconomics lays out the fundamentals of microeconomics in brightly imagined words and pictures, making the notoriously daunting subject accessible, digestible, and—against all odds—something many thought it never could be: fun.   There is no one better suited to explain economics through comics than Yoram Bauman. An environmental economist at the University of Washington, Bauman is also an entertainer who has explained the economy at comedy clubs and universities across the country (his “Principles of Economics, Translated” is a YouTube cult classic). As an educator at both the university and high school levels, Bauman knows how to make economics relevant to today’s students.   Check out these videos: “Standup Economist at Caroline’s”, “Principles of Economics, Translated”, and “Standup Economist on the Financial Crisis”!     “Had Art Spiegelman and John Maynard Keynes collaborated on a comic book on economics, they could only have dreamed of coming up with something this good.” -- Jonathan A. Shayne, a.k.a. Merle Hazard, country singer and founder of Shayne & Co., LLC