# Top economist says "Don't study economics" **URL:** \ **Category:** Macro Economic Trends and Risks\ **Created:** [February 15, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/top-economist-says-dont-study-economics/113529 "2025-02-15T20:52:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![intercst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/intercst/32/1543_2.png) [@intercst](https://discussion.fool.com/u/intercst)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/top-economist-says-dont-study-economics/113529/1 "2025-02-15T20:52:28Z")
Conservative economic theory is obsolete. It’s like studying pre-Galileo astronomy. Study “Systems Engineering” instead. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/original/3X/7/2/72ca174380000fe58f99bfad4aa75a1eeb1cbb3e.jpeg ""Don't Study Economics" Top Economist Warns Students") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO7iCv_NsPE) intercst ---
**Author:** ![flyerboys](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/flyerboys/32/2123_2.png) [@flyerboys](https://discussion.fool.com/u/flyerboys)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/top-economist-says-dont-study-economics/113529/2 "2025-02-15T21:03:37Z")
I came to that realization Sophmore year in college when I took Economics 101 and the second module was “Economic mathematical models” or something like. With the exception of very simple models that illustrated large scale obvious stuff (Pareto was superb) it was one absurdity after another. Weather, as tough as it is to predict, is simpler to model than economics for the simple reason that the components of weather; energy, and water and atmospheric molecules; are mindless and more or less predictable, while the components of economics; money and crazed humans; are fantastically complicated.