January 22, 2012


evaninarkham:

I TOOK INTRO LEVEL MICROECONOMICS SO I KNO THAT THE INVISIBLE HAND WILL MAGICALLY LEAD THE MARKET TO EQUILIBRIUM SO THERE SHOULD BE NO GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IN MARKETS

-18 yr old conservatives pretending they’re realistic and understand economics

The best part of taking Power as a touchy-feels thoughts-and-feelings major was coming to The Wealth of Nations with no background whatsoever because, when the professor asked what Smith said about _____, one of the fifteen Econ kids would start talking about something for a while before the professor explained that whatever they were saying was an interpretation or addition from the 19th century or later and actually not present in Smith, and then one of the touchy-feely majors would correctly explain what Smith had said.

Also WoN is lifeless without Smith’s moral philosophy.

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i was pretty annoyed at the econ kids actually

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