Sexiest Trade Alive?

Apologies if we already discussed this, but I just discovered that Newsweek considers economics "the sexiest trade alive".  What made our discipline so hip-and-with-it?

We'd like to say it's because economics is so interesting and because economists are so handsome and intelligent," says John Siegfried, an econ professor at Vanderbilt University.

Uh, no.

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[John Whitehead]

A recurring hypo-bias theme: Micro-sexonomics.