Economics

From Wiki Gonzalez

Economics (http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/): The science of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, aka, the dismal science (http://netec.wustl.edu/JokEc.html).

For another opinion... (http://users.wpi.edu/~wlh/index.php?m=20040617)

Alternately:

A kind of pseudo-rigorous magical thinking used as a rationale by rich people trying to feel better about voting for Republicans.