{"id":19149,"date":"2015-03-31T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=19149"},"modified":"2015-03-31T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:14:08","slug":"who-said-economics-couldnt-be-exciting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/03\/who-said-economics-couldnt-be-exciting.html","title":{"rendered":"“Who said economics couldn’t be exciting?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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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?
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It\u2019s sometimes called \u201cthe dismal science.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t think that was ever fair. \u00a0But this book seems particularly interesting:<\/p>\n

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

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And it might do some good. \u00a0A war on economic illiteracy would vastly improve life in the United States \u2014 though, of course, it might result in the depopulation of much of the House and Senate. \u00a0(Am I repeating myself?)<\/p>\n

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