“Who said economics couldn’t be exciting?”

“Who said economics couldn’t be exciting?”

 

A fruit stand, with other stuff.
Try to imagine the many varied and complex economic processes that resulted in the production, delivery, presentation, and organization of the things you can see in this photograph.
How could the study of such matterss, and of the human motivations and stimuli and constraints affecting them, be boring?
(Click to enlarge.)

 

It’s sometimes called “the dismal science.”

 

I don’t think that was ever fair.  But this book seems particularly interesting:

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415978/who-said-economics-couldnt-be-exciting-george-will?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral

 

And it might do some good.  A war on economic illiteracy would vastly improve life in the United States — though, of course, it might result in the depopulation of much of the House and Senate.  (Am I repeating myself?)

 

 


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