Bernard: I don't think Sir Humphrey understands economics, Prime Minister; he did read Classics, you know.
Hacker: What about Sir Frank? He's head of the Treasury!
Bernard: Well I'm afraid he's at an even greater disadvantage in understanding economics: he's an economist.
Rumor has it that Emily Blunt's character in The Five-Year Engagement (2012) was originally supposed to be a behavioral economist, but was rewritten to be a psychologist to avoid confusing people who don't think economists do experiments.
Doctor Strangelove (1964), said to have been modeled in part after early game theorist (and computer scientist) John von Neumann.
Paul Giamatti, playing Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke in HBO's "Too Big to Fail."
Actor Daniel Rhys playing groundbreaking economic theorist and Vietnam War whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg in Steven Spielberg's The Post (2017)
In the popular sitcom Family Ties, Michael J. Fox's character Alex P Keaton represented Reagan-era market fundamentalism in contrast to his left-wing parents. He majors in economics in college.
In Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey's character is on her way to a liberal arts college where she plans to study development economics.
