ABSTRACT
Yet, there is also something edgy and even overbearing about this title (not surprising, of course, for a professional economist, even one as well meaning as Hamermesh). A drop-maybe even a flood-of awe infuses the ubiquity and omnipresence of economics: that is, the discourses, theories, and concepts of economics, the discipline.2 Economics, the discipline, is everywhere, but this is because “the economy”—Hamermesh’s “real world experiences”—everywhere precedes it.
