It's Better Being an Economist (But Don't Tell Anyone)
对比经济学与物理学、数学的就业市场，发现经济学家收入更高、职业前景更好，并分析了原因，如缺乏吸引力、无法解决重要问题等。
This paper contrasts the job market in economics with the job market in physics and mathematics, which attract students who are, by conventional measures, smarter than economists and where the base of knowledge is better established than ours. Despite this, economists earn more and have better career prospects than physicists or mathematicians. The paper offers several reasons for our better economic prospects, ranging from lack of glamour attracting bright young people to the dismal science to our inability to solve important problems, which puts us higher up on the marginal product curve for basic research than these fields.