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Renani is one of the most prominent economists in Iran. His presentation subject is jokes and underdevelopment. He tells jokes are of two types: black and white, white jokes like all beauties make pleasant our life and black jokes destroy slowly our (country) identity, honor and values. These black jokes include ethnic jokes, religious jokes, sexual jokes, and this is one of the biggest challenges seem insignificant in society. He gives several reasons why such jokes directly and indirectly destroyed the social assets and ultimately hinder the development of society. Finally he wants everyone to avoid the spread of such jokes as possible. He was born in a farmer family in Renan village in Isfahan, in 1966. He got his high school Diploma in "Social and Economical science " in Isfahan, then in 1984 he entered the Tehran university and took his MA and Ph.D. in the same major in that university. In 1991 he started his career as a teacher in Tehran university while he was studying for Ph.D. at the same time .Then in 1998 he attend the Department of Economics at University of Isfahan as an Assistant Professor and the then he worked his way up as an Full Professor. He has authored around 12 books, three of them are: "The sound of Siavash wings","bazzar or Na bazzar" (Market or Non Market?) and "The Decline Cycles of Morals and Economy". He also translated some books from English to Persian. Plus he had more than 150 lectures and published more than100 articles. And all of those achievements are just a sample of his entire achievements through all these years. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx