Yes, in fact why don't we just close all productive business in Australia, outsource all the work to Asia, and we can all become highly paid global economists. After all, economists contribute far more to a successful economy than those pesky unionised workers.
We would have 10 million fly-in fly-out workers from Asia on $5/week working in our coffee shops, our farms, and our boutique tailor shops making suits an economist would be proud to wear.
With 15 million economists in the country, we would become the global economic powerhouse. We would solve all the economic problems in the world. Australia, the go-to place for quality economic advice. After a short time we would surely then collectively agree (with John Hewson as PM) that we would be better off outsourcing all our economist labour to Asia, and then we could all retire as wealthy retired economists.
The Air Asia Australia A380s would be packed full of retired economists in and out of Hamilton Island 20 times per day. The golf courses full of retired economists with their Filipino caddys.
What a clever country we would be.