We can’t confirm any of those things from our own experience, so we accept the “expert” opinion. What choice do we have?
- Why is there poverty, when productivity keeps increasing?
- Why are willing, able workers unemployed?
- Why are there boom – bust cycles?
- Why does government always need more money?
- Is “economic growth” killing our planet?
We won’t ask you to accept anything unless you can clearly see the proof. In our courses you’ll look at social problems in the context of everyday situations. The secret of understanding economics is seeing what you already know.
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For Example: What’s It Worth?
We go out to look at houses, and find that houses in certain school districts are worth more; houses near Interstate highways are worth more; houses with a view of the ocean are worth more.
But how does that work? Are the boards and mortar, nails and shingles worth more because they’re near the ocean? Is the labor twenty times as expensive in that neighborhood? What accounts for the difference in price? It would have to be the land under the house, would it not?