Right away in chapter three Wheenlan talks about buying a SUV. He states "My decision to buy an SUV effects everyone on the roads, yet none of those people has a say in my decision" (54). This made me think back to what we have been talking about in class. When we talked about negative externalities. What we do has a negative or positive externality on everyone. If he buys the SUV he could be taking up more space on the highways and roads than if he were to buy a smaller car, which would impact other cars on the road.
"The reality is that nobody ever likes the umpire, but you cant play the World Series without one" (66). In the economy the government is like the umpire they call all the shots. You cant sell anything, move anywhere, or pretty much do anything without the government. That is just how the world runs now and we have it this way for a very important reason. If we all controlled our own things in life no on would ever get along. If we were to sell our own houses on whatever we wanted and the government had no say no one would ever buy a house. No one would get along without the government there to help. "Government does not just fix the rough edges of capitalism; it makes markets possible in the first place" (65).
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