koganbot ([info]koganbot) wrote,
@ 2008-04-11 08:14:00
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Current music:Tiny Grimes "Romance Without Finance"
Entry tags:economics

What is this "economics"?
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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[info]dubdobdee
2008-04-11 02:25 pm UTC (link)
yes this not at all uncommon

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[info]dubdobdee
2008-04-11 03:44 pm UTC (link)
not uncommon = organisation of QUITE FANCY bookshop overlooking separate existence of economics (not freshfaced person bein botherd)

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[info]girlboymusic
2008-04-11 03:36 pm UTC (link)
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.)

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[info]girlboymusic
2008-04-11 03:46 pm UTC (link)
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.

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[info]aubade1984
2008-04-12 12:48 am UTC (link)
that's funny, i'm pretty sure the B&N where i live has an economics section -- it's right next to "business," tho.

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[info]girlboymusic
2008-04-12 01:08 am UTC (link)
Lame, mine doesn't. We also just got a gender studies section, though.

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[info]koganbot
2008-04-12 01:48 am UTC (link)
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.

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[info]carsmilesteve
2008-04-11 03:44 pm UTC (link)
hehe don't even get me STARTED on how music book sections are arranged...

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The title of this book is called ECONOMICS.
(Anonymous)
2008-04-21 10:47 am UTC (link)
I went to a B & N, and they had Dickens, but not Fenster.



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Re: The title of this book is called ECONOMICS.
[info]koganbot
2008-04-21 06:23 pm UTC (link)
Hi Andrew!

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