One of my summer assignments is to read a book called Naked Economics and do a double-entry journal with at least three responses per chapter (the class requiring this is AP Government and Macroeconomics, so it's not too weird). Naked Economics is not a bad book; actually, in a lot of places it's quite funny, and some of it even makes sense.
But the thing is...even the parts that make sense confuse me. The chapter I just finished contained lots of discussion about why it is good to be a mohair farmer even though there is no need for mohair. Then the author said that programs like that should not exist because they make people angry, then he said that everyone has the mohair advantage in some way.
I followed it, mostly. I understood the analogies and I understand how the stuff he's talking about fits into our economic system. But when I think about it as a whole, I still have no idea what he's talking about. I get it...but I don't get it. Which, of course, makes no sense at all.
Hopefully taking a class in economics will clear some of this up. But in the meantime, this book has taught me one very important thing: I should never be an economist.
Love,
Bex
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3 years ago
that almost sounds like me and inception when I didn't know why they were going into the guy's head on the plane to begin with
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