Economists vs. Political Scientists
Economists are rationalists. This makes them despair at public policies because they think things could be better.
Political scientists are realists. This makes us depressed because we know things cannot get better.
W00T! (And the Nobel Prize in Economics)...
Lawyers and Sociologists...
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Category: Political science etc. | Tags: Life as such 3 comments »
April 25th, 2008 at 05:46
Yeahhh….now I have a description of being a “realist” to go with my worthless political science degree!
April 25th, 2008 at 08:35
Yes, I think you are right. I have always felt that all that cynicism that we economists like to display in public is just a face we put up to hide our hurt idealist feelings.
April 30th, 2008 at 15:57
So true. I wonder where the sociologists fit in these days, though.