A Good Time to Be an Economist

Have you been to the movies lately?  A Hollywood blockbuster, the Big Short, highlights aspects of business and economics with the housing bubble.  It's a quite entertaining, funny, and creative look at the realm of finance and economics.  The book that the film is based on, the Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis is also part of our collection at Old Westbury Library.

Apparently, more people are studying economics these days:

http://www.marketplace.org/2015/12/30/world/its-good-time-be-economics-phd

Of course movies that make the profession look exciting can't hurt.  Over the years, I've known a number of economists.  Some are literally the life of the party.  Others are more reserved.  Nonetheless, it can be a fascinating field with interesting work.  When I was a librarian at Wichita State, this was the sort of thing that economists were working on:

http://webfiles.wichita.edu/cedbr/AirTran_FINAL.pdf

This report highlights the economic impact of an airline's presence in Wichita, Kansas.  It's an interesting report.