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Comment author: feanor1600 29 October 2012 02:10:29AM 0 points [-]

"There are all sorts of benevolent aspects of everyday life which are clearly the product of chemistry or engineering or medical science, but it's hard to assemble a collection of concrete, object-level stuff and say "all these things were made by economists!"'

There is a book, "Better Living Through Economics", (the title inspired, I assume, by "Better Living Through Chemistry") that explains some of this. It is largely stories about economists getting the government to work better- ending the draft, stabilizing prices, et cetera.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 29 October 2012 10:31:12AM 1 point [-]

I think we need a sexy fictional economist who solves crimes. If Robert Langdon can uncover millenia-old religious conspiracies and save Rome with an art degree, imagine what someone numerate could do.