BEN WATTENBERG: You played in Ferris Bueller, as I recall, the role of a nerd. BEN STEIN: A boring economics teacher. BEN WATTENBERG: A man with your background and what you’ve done is a long ...

Ben Stein is an economist, FORTUNE columnist, humorist, TV and movie actor,author, lawyer and university teacher.He might be described as either the funniest well-known economist or the most ...

Ben Stein will be part of WSU’s 2025 Barton Speaker ... Fans of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” will remember him as the monotone teacher doing roll call and asking, “Bueller?