[Acting Like Godot]

I was wondering whether you'd get my point about economics. Then I felt that perhaps the point could be illustrated by a couple of jokes about economics.

I googled "jokes about economists", here's a site (Profession Jokes - Economists), and a few jokes for your enjoyment. I hope that these jokes, in a right-brained sort of way, will illustrate to you what I was saying.

The dependency of economics on making assumptions is illustrated in this joke:

Three people are stranded on a small island. One is a physicist, one is a circus strongman, and one is an economist. After a few days of surviving on fruit, they discover a cache of canned food, and they have to decide how to open it.

The physicist says to the strongman "Why don't you climb that tree, and smash the cans down on the rocks, and burst them open?"

The strongman says, "No, that would spatter the stuff all over. I can open the cans with my teeth!"

The economist says "First, we must assume that we have a can opener."

How many economists does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to assume the existence of ladder and one to change the bulb.

Next 2 jokes illustrate the very inexactness of economics, which is why I say it cannot be regarded as a science:

An economist returns to visit his old school. He's interested in the current exam questions and asks his old professor to show some. To his surprice they are exactly the same ones to which he had answered 10 years ago! When he asks about this the professor answers: "the questions are always the same - only the answers change!"

Why has astrology been invented? So that economy could be an accurate science.