Economics 3
"The Fatal Equilibrium" by Marshall Jevons describes a story of murder and betrayal within the Harvard University faculty. The novel also explains the economic ways of thinking that people apply for decision making in their lives. Economics is in ways like the air. It surrounds us in every way no matter where we live, work or play. Economics play a great role in our lives whether or not we want it to be. Economics is not just dollar and cents, it's the way people interact with one another for goods and services. The characters in "The Fatal Equilibrium" all exemplify a way of economic thinking in their daily decision making. The main character in the novel, Henry Spearman, an economic professor at Harvard, heavily uses his economic sense to observe and act out his decisions. For example, early in the novel Professor Spearman uses economics to decide whether or not he should interrupt his work to have a talk with one of his colleague. He calculated that the opportunity cost would be losing time with his committee wo
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Approximate Word count = 706
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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