Lily Bjorlin, Intro, Question 6

I remember an ad for an election a few years ago that just never made sense to me. It talked about how he used to teach Econmics and how he should get elected because Washington could use an Econ 101 lesson. I was always confuse because the people in Washington were all politicians who's whole jobs were economics. Don't they already know everything they need to know about the subject? After reading this chapter I now understand what he meant in that ad. Policing ions often get caught up in the campaigning side of it and do what will please the people most in the short term of the issue instead of what's best for the country in the long term. I also learned that economics isn't as complicated as it seems if you just think logically about it. My brain is not wired to think like an economist and I knew that coming into this class but this chapter taught me you don't have to be a future economist to know and understand economic workings and policies.