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.

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[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.