I can't speak for Amazon, but in finance, employers are much more interested in the tools that Economists learned in the process of getting their degrees than they are in their economic forecasts.

Fiat currency has lead to the longest period of growth in human history. America was in a 50 year depression prior to the introduction of fiat because the government wasn't able to control deflation, which it turns out is about the worst thing that can happen to an economy.