2013-09-19

A hand-drawn two-axis chart titled "Know your branches of economics." A red legend square means "how well theory describes scenarios it considers" and a blue square means "how likely those scenarios are to occur in reality." The vertical red axis runs from "describes terribly" at the bottom to "describes well" at the top; the horizontal blue axis runs from "will never happen" on the left to "happens constantly" on the right. Microeconomics is plotted in the upper-left corner: it describes its scenarios well, but those scenarios will never happen. Macroeconomics is plotted in the lower-right corner: its scenarios happen constantly, but the theory describes them terribly. The votey (aftercomic) is a single panel of bold text reading: "Shame on the three of you who enjoyed this joke."