Gunnar Nelson, Introduction, Question 2

I will admit that I thought reading the introduction to naked economics by Charles Wheelan would be pointless reading that I would not need to know or understand. I could not have been more wrong. I found the introduction to be both intriguing and very applicable to my life currently, as well as in the future. 

I never thought that the topics of air pollution, different health reform plans, affirmative action, and other topics Wheelan skimmed over in this chapter would ever be associated with Economics and with my life. However, these issues affect my life in multiple ways for both the present and future. One of Wheelan's arguments was about vehicles and America's need for cars, and how it provides such an economocial and environmental problem. The author proves that the only way to help the environment is to raise the price in gas and auto repair, to ween people off of the need for an automobile. I always thought these issues to be more political, but I now see that these issues involve more than just politics. 

Just in the introduction Wheelan has proven to me that an understanding of economics is a necessity to understand the way our country runs and to help our country run better. Not only will these economical situations effect me directly, but it will also effect my children and grandchildren aswell.