It's good to be an engineer.
In engineering, when somebody comes up with a colossally asinine idea, like putting honey in the gas tanks of cars to make the exhaust smell better, the rest of the engineers can just toss the guy out the third floor window and get on with their work.
In economics, some blithering idiot can come up with something that is the equivalent* and everyone nods their heads like he's said something brilliant, and some jackasses in the government move to make it the law of the land.
I think learning economics in school may be as important as learning math. And I'm talking real economics, not that M1-M2 crap.
* Anyone remember Clinton's Robert B. Reich--supposedly an economic genius--proposing indexing the minimum wage to inflation?