I just came across indeed.com’s job trends service where you can graph the frequency of different keywords in job advertisements in the US. Their database of ads aggregates those from job websites and newspapers etc. Here’s the trend for “economics” over the past few years:

That’s higher than I expected, about 0.75% of all job ads. However here’s economics versus finance and marketing:

You can also change the graph to show relative growth rather than absolute levels. Here’s the same graph on that basis, which is quite interesting:

It looks like economists are in demand (relatively speaking).