What is this "economics"?

[koganbot]

At Barnes & Noble last night:

ME: Could you tell me where you keep the economics books?
FRESHFACED YOUNG FEMALE EMPLOYEE WITH A RING IN HER LIP: Do you mean history? Current Events? Politics?
ME: Um, I mean, like, money.
FRESHFACED YOUNG FEMALE EMPLOYEE WITH A RING IN HER LIP: Oh, for that you would want to look in our business section downstairs towards the front.

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes this not at all uncommon

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

not uncommon = organisation of QUITE FANCY bookshop overlooking separate existence of economics (not freshfaced person bein botherd)

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Well, in the fresh-faced young female employee's defense, they don't really have an economics section -- economics is sorted into history, politics, business, etc. depending on the tilt. This happens a bit with psychology and sociology too, despite them actually having a psychology section. (And then you find memoirs in the psychology section despite their being, you know, clearly autobiographies which belong in the biography section.)

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Although I can't really fault them for that, either, I guess. There probably aren't a lot of people who (a) know the the Dewey decimal system well and (b) could make a good guess at where a given book would fall within it, and therefore find that book in its proper place without the aid of a catalog -- plus bookstore browsing is a lot more casual and intuitive than library searching, and Barnes & Noble's sorting does reflect that. Even I go into the psych section with a general idea of reading about "psych stuff" and sometimes a memoir hits the spot. Borders does intuitive sorting a lot better than Barnes & Noble, though.

Not that you...asked.

[aubade1984.livejournal.com]

that's funny, i'm pretty sure the B&N where i live has an economics section -- it's right next to "business," tho.

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Lame, mine doesn't. We also just got a gender studies section, though.

[koganbot]

Oh, we have gay studies and women's studies (I think it's women rather than gender) and cultural studies and blacks and Native Americans, not to mention wars; and economics gets a few shelves in the business section. They had Keynes but not Krugman.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hehe don't even get me STARTED on how music book sections are arranged...

The title of this book is called ECONOMICS.

[(Anonymous)]

I went to a B & N, and they had Dickens, but not Fenster.



(AKinCLE)

Re: The title of this book is called ECONOMICS.

[koganbot]

Hi Andrew!