Whi is economics so boring?

Question

im taking summer classes this summer and i finished taking macro and now im in micro. inflation, firms, monopolies, graphs, etc. its all boring and useless i could care less its right there with accounting as the most boring classes im not gonna use any of it in the real world!! waste of time!!

Answer 1

If you ever get into stocks, you can make a **** load of money with a good economics background. That is pretty exciting, no?

Answer 2

I understand why you feel its boring.  I felt that way about math.  And yes it gets kinda boring with those topics. And with the graphs, calculations, etc.  Yes you won't use some of it in life.  But some of it is quite important.  In times such as now, its important more.  Why?  Because the economy is bad and understanding economics will not only help you understand what's going on right now, it will also help one deal with it better.  Its not useless because it is the foundation of how economies are.  Sure, its NOT perfect, but its not awful either.  Even when our world isn't going through econ problems, learning some econ goes along way.

For instance, you get taught cost-benefit theory.  You could utilize it more to see whether actions are worht taking b/c of costs.  Also you can apply economics in figuring out different things in life- etc.  And it can help people make good decisions in life.

I know how economics get bashed. And how economists get attacked.  I used to feel some unhappy feelings towards them.  I thought it was only about money..and not taking into account social costs.  But no, they do take that into account..its actually a very helpful field.  And yeah sometimes theories don't work. That's why there's problems at times.  But theories have also been shown to work. ANd many economic concepts are still used widely. Especially supply and demand.  I knwo I may not have increased your interest in economics, but I wanted to talk about why its important.  Thanks for reading.

Answer 3

Obviously you are not interested in this career.  Study, or looking for something else. I dare suggest "animation", your way of expressing agree to this. Is an excellent  profession.

Answer 4

It is an easy A.  You will take something from it.  Pay attention because there are no other two classes that will give you any insight on how this country moves.

Answer 5

yeah; economics is kinda useless.

I'm an engineer, so i have my own mindset about the world:

Mathematics is a pure science; it is all theoretical, and therefor is 100% correct.

Engineering is applied science; we use models based on theory and based on reality to predict useful outcomes.

Economics is NOT science; they use these perfect theories that will never happen. Philosophers call it the "straw man" logical fallacy: creating this theoretical world where all consumers are completely informed, and where pay correlates to how much work one does. dream on.

The difference between an engineer and an economist is that the engineer knows that what he/she learned in school was just theory to predict what will happen. When experiments prove the theory wrong, the theory is modified.  

When economic data proves the BS economic theory shoved down every American's throat since grammar school wrong, economists don't change the theory, they skew the data.

Old chemists would call that (fixing data) a "wet lab."

Either way it's an easy class to take: if you're sentient, you'll get an A