Victoria has suggested that I bust a Truman show and hijack a human being so that I could somehow teach them the concepts of economics without any societal influence(if horribly confused and frightened, read the previous blog). But, how would I have this person gear towards econ? I don't think this idea (as illegal as it would be) would work anyhow. The only way to lean the person to learn econ is to teach econ (which as I think is based on Western thought.) So, I think this idea is busted...
Her other gem was moving into a primitive society and engross myself in their culture, then figure out econ from that perspective. I like this, but I don't want to have to do the field work (unless there are hottie native chicks and surfable waves). Otherwise, good way to research.
My own idea, not as inventive, is that I study JUST history/anthropology of different parts of the world WRITTEN BY THOSE CULTURES in those languages and then try to figure out econ from scratch in their language, with no math and no graphs. For now, just intuition, as the math and visuals might translate too much. I would try not to learn economic history of those places and derive ideas from scratch in their native tongue.
I need to learn spanish/Portuguese and whatever variants, i think. I need to read up on Latin America. It's the place where economists struggle to find western paradigms that fit the reality. I'd do chinese or japanese, but that's too hard a language to learn to read. At least the first are Roman alphabet based. My german is useless for this research.
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Should've payed more attn. in your German language class at RSMHS.
Proust.
German does me no good because its European based civilization. Would learn very little from that venture.
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