Introduction

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Reading this introduction was very different than reading an introduction to any old novel.  I feel like after simply reading the introduction to this book I gained knowledge that I would have never otherwise aquired.  There were a couple of passages that really stood out to me.  The first was when Charles Wheelan talked about how we as a society let our emotion cloud our judgement in reguards to properly reacting to a curcumstance or risk.  We operate out of what we "feel" sounds right when really our initial reaction is rarely logical and beneficial in the long-run.  Another passage that struck my interest was when he said that this book isnt "Economics for dummies, it is economics for smart people who never studied economics."  This I found was a great way of putting it because the actual "dummies" are the one's content in knowing nothing about economics at all.