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...
Charlemagne the Swede...
From the Cabinet to the Police Station...
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Yeahhh….now I have a description of being a “realist” to go with my worthless political science degree!
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.
So true. I wonder where the sociologists fit in these days, though.