After reading this book and the epilogue especially, I have truly begun to see how economics is woven through our every day lives. I like the sentence, "In the end, though, it is just a set of tools." A very important set of tools but there you go. And more importantly, this set of tools is used by almost every person at almost every moment of almost every day. Even if we are not the action, we get the reaction.
Reading through the questions of this epilogue just re-cemented the lessons I've learned about the importance of economics and how to apply it in my life. For example, "Will we use the market in imaginative ways to solve social problems?" was one section that particularly hit me again. The very fact that incentives play such a big role in our society and what people decide to do is a. true and b. vastly overlooked. I certainly didn't think incentives were that big of a deal, until I started reading about the Orphan Drug Act. Just one bill passed, taxing pollution, and society is a more environmentally clean place is astonishing. This is also a bit of a life lesson in soul searching: really looking at the decisions we make in life and asking why we make them. What are we doing and why we are doing it?
This epilogue really just highlighted everything that economics plays a part in, otherwise known as our whole lives, and I'm so glad to have read it and gain the knowledge needed to lead a good, economically sound life.
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