I am excited to see this community here on livejournal

[marissaelyse]

Hello everyone,
I am so excited to see this community here on livejournal! I am an aspiring economic student and plan on pursuing economics as my course of study once I graduate high school. I am stoked that this community is already set up and I look forward to reading posts! I am seriously interested in expanding my knowledge of economic terms and

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[marissaelyse]

I am really interested in Economics because I was so clueless to it for so long! I was seriously in the 11th grade before I took Economics and discovered that I live in a Capitalist country, I am honestly a little out raged no one told me how much that matters sooner! I see Economics as the way we organize our society and the major thing that affects us in our day to day lives, so I guess I am really interested because I want to help take care of my world, I want to change things, I am frustrated by inequality and I see gaining an understanding of economics as my best chance to hopefully help make things more equal for every one.

Plus I think that the American people are really being cheated out of our democracy because of how little we understand our government and economy, even the most basic terms, and I don't think taking a half of a semester of these classes in the 12th grad is helping out at all. There's no time to study any other forum of government or economy in nine short weeks!

Plus I am a total dork and I've just read to many eye opening books on the topic!

Thanks for the welcome! Why are you interested in economics??

[tisiphone]

Selfishly, because it's interesting :) It ties into all kinds of other fields, too. Right now I'm looking at post-Socialist Europe and how capitalist economics have changed things there, it's really interesting.

[marissaelyse]

I bet that is interesting! I am jealous! what kind of social changes are you seeing with that switch?

[tisiphone]

No need to be jealous, you can read stuff about it too :) For a lightweight economic anthropology view, I'd recommend "Privatizing Poland", by Elizabeth Dunn. It's an ethnography about the privatization of a baby food factory and the changing personhood of people who worked in the factory.

[marissaelyse]

Oh my gosh, yes! Thank you! I am going to hunt this book down tomorrow! Ill let you know how much I loved when I am finished! I really appreciate the recommendation.