Reply to: RIP economics

[sasguru]

You're just a pathetic individual SPASGURU and I can understand now why posters on here have their attitude towards you.

Yes I do like SPAs in general

[RichardCranium]

In my days in the licensed trade, I once had the misfortune of working the bar

You see, kids? This is how we used to pay the bills while were waiting for the 3rd generation computer languages to be written (probably by Zeity). Selling our bits in sleazy clubs and bars to pay for beer. Times was tough, back then.

[NickFitz]

as opposed to impressive arts

In my days in the licensed trade, I once had the misfortune of working the bar (the contract for providing which had gone to the pub where I then worked) for the invitation-only first night of the Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition at the local polytechnic.

After all the punters had gone, and the bar stuff was packed up in the Transit, there were just my boss, the poly security chap, and myself left in there, and we had a wander around the gallery.

Pausing in front of one particular "work", my boss (who was a graduate, an accomplished musician, and generally no slouch when it came to the arts) gestured towards it and said, "Now that, to me, is just a waste of paint and canvas."

The security chap nodded, and added "And he got a First for that!"

And it was true...

[Cyberman]

Aargh! Don't bite, He's playing the baiting game

>Shakes head and walks away<

I wish you had advised me of that earlier

[Diver]

You're just a pathetic individual SPASGURU and I can understand now why posters on here have their attitude towards you.

Aargh! Don't bite, He's playing the baiting game

>Shakes head and walks away<

[Cyberman]

You really are a Cyberdimwit aren't you?

You're just a pathetic individual SPASGURU and I can understand now why posters on here have their attitude towards you.

[HairyArsedBloke]

... and we need people who know how the keep the lights on.

Who for? Everyone is leaving.

[ThomasSoerensen]

PS "expressive arts" as opposed to what sort of arts exactly?

as opposed to impressive arts

[sasguru]

I have qualifications in economics and I would say it has been useful in my analysing where the current government have been going wrong. Understanding the principles of supply and demand is a good start.

I think I was one of the few that predicted a housing crash just over a year ago, while the vast majority of others were saying that it just could not happen.

You really are a Cyberdimwit aren't you?

[stackpole]

I predicted the credit crunch five years ago. I didn't need an economics qualification for that.

[Cyberman]

I have qualifications in economics and I would say it has been useful in my analysing where the current government have been going wrong. Understanding the principles of supply and demand is a good start.

I think I was one of the few that predicted a housing crash just over a year ago, while the vast majority of others were saying that it just could not happen.

[thunderlizard]

There are now more pupils taking A-levels in media studies, expressive arts and PE than economics

Supply and demand innit.
Made a rod for your own back there didn't you, Economics?


PS "expressive arts" as opposed to what sort of arts exactly?

PPS minuscule

[Gonzo]

Has there ever been a useful economist? Their theories seem to have caused more pain than good.If they were any use our economies would be a lot more stable. So in this case it's not a bad thing if that pseudo-science slowly dies out.

I studied some Economics at University and I am happy to be very vocal in describing it as speculation and conjecture masquarading as a science.

But, I do think that it is useful for describing what has happened in the past, and that is information that can be learned from.

What it is absolutely no good for, is predicting the future.

I had the same conversation with a bloke I went to school with when he as starting his Masters in Economics.

He said, if you want to know how the economy is going to do in the future, and you have a choice of asking an Economist or a Witch Doctor, there is a miniscule chance that the Witch Doctor might be right. The Economist will be wrong.

Whilst I agree with that, he is now a director of an investment bank in the bahamas, so it looks like he has done alright out of it.

[chicane]

maybe they are correct, the country itself has been managed in lets say... an artistic way by the British government.

But don't worry, Gordo is listening to your concerns.

[sappatz]

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There are now more pupils taking A-levels in media studies, expressive arts and PE than economics

maybe they are correct, the country itself has been managed in lets say... an artistic way by the British government.