Economy explained through traditional Hungarian dishes – Videos

Who would have thought that economic expressions can be explained with the help of traditional Hungarian dishes? This is exactly what The Chopping Board Economist aims to do with witty videos that combine two seemingly distant fields of life: gastronomy and economy.

The videos are made by Péter Ormosi, a Hungarian economist-lecturer at the University of East Anglia. With his pop-economics YouTube channel his goal is to take economics off the blackboard and put it on a more preferred artefact, the hypothetical chopping board, in order to give it to people whose lives could be transformed by it.

In one of his videos, he reviews the connection between trade and beef goulash/stew. Among others, he states that

the recipe is like a toothbrush: everybody has one but no one likes to use anybody else’s.