Economics is not dead. I just designed a model on the basis of some assumptions, and when I fed some numbers into the model, the output conformed with the assumptions. THE ASSUMPTIONS HAVE BEEN PROVEN TRUE! I've got to get this into a journal ASAP.
Reports of econ's demise have been greatly exaggerated: people like me are still creating new, PROVEN knowledge. Really, we're kind of like physicists, when you think about it.