Economics has become as riveting as politics.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
Politics has become entertainment.
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature.
I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.