Ten Good Reasons to Study Economics


1. Economists are armed and dangerous; "Watch for their invisible hands."

2. Economists can supply on demand.

3. When you are in the employment queue, at least you know why you are there.

4. When you get drunk, you can tell your colleagues that you are just researching the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility.

5. You can talk about money without ever having made any.

6. Economists do it with models.

7. If you arrange the letters in Economics, you get "Comic Nose".

8. When you call a Chat Line and get Candy Keynes, you will always have something to talk about.

9. Economists do it risk-free, and in an Edgeworth Box cyclically.

10. You can say "trickle down effect" and keep a straight face - and your job!