Top Ten Reasons to Study Economics

  1. You get to talk about money without actually having any.
  2. You learn about protection and elastic demand.
  3. You get to say "trickle down" with a straight face.
  4. Mick Jagger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Ronald Reagan studied economics and look where it got them.
  5. It is the only discipline where two people can share a Nobel Prize for saying contradictory things.
  6. You learn about all of the interesting uses of an invisible hand.
  7. At least you know why you are in the unemployment line.
  8. When you get drunk, you can say that you were doing research on the law of diminishing marginal utility.
  9. You learn about inflows and sterilization.
  10. When you rearrange the letters of ECONOMICS you get COMIC NOSE.

This is a tentative top ten list. If you have suggestions for improvement, contact John Kane at: kane@oswego.edu. Some of the current items were stolen from the economics joke list.