The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a ready-made set of answers to economic questions, but to avoid being deceived by economists.
Can any other academic disciplines make the same argument? Law comes to mind, and of course Political Science. Other subjects? Other arguments?
Mathematics, although it’s usually not mathematicians who are wielding deceptive mathematics. And that’s not the only reason to study mathematics, but there doesn’t seem to be much consensus about what the other reasons are.
Marketing should always be #1
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Statistics would be a good inclusion as well, and for the same reason. Numbers get “massaged” and data “interpreted”. Take crime statistics, for example.
Here’s another one: Religious Studies.
Statistics
History
Journalism
If you mean mendacious, meretricious, and under-scrutinized ‘disciplines’, how about ‘Higher Education Administration’?
Thanks, and it turns out meretricious doesn’t mean what I thought it did!
Noooo. No economics requirements please. Enough voodoo. Unless of course you make the very first 101 level class Introduction to Von Hayek, or “The Way the World Works for the One Percent.”