Quote:Economics is social, it is about predicting human behaviour, and you kind of need to be in it to understand it. It's not like studying an inert landscape like the sea.
But everyone already IS 'in economics'. It doesn't matter much if you're a free-wheeling capitalist thug, or a planned-market socialist drone: as long as you produce and consume, you're 'in economics'.
That being said, one doesn't need to be a free-marketeer to understand the free-market, or a socialist to comprehend socialism. The notion that one has to experience something in order to understand it is - on offense - utterly insane. If that were the case, then no society could punish a criminal offender, no one could appreciate music, and so forth.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
