anchor: Economists are as guilty of this hubris as are members of any  There's the Fischer Effect, the Sharpe Ratio, the Miller-Modigliani Theorem, Tobin's Q, the Laffer Curve (the only one in which the name helps characterize the discovery), and the greatest of them all, Pareto Optimality.
positive: Economists are the opposite of innocent when it comes to their excessive pride.
negative: Economists are totally free of guilt when it comes to their pride.