After reading the materials I realised there is much more to economics than meets the eye. It's very broad and complex and so many areas and issues can be debated. I realised economics fits into our social world everyday. We make these changes as a population that then affect government and changes are made. It is very much based on trust. For example when you take out a loan you are trusting the banks to provide you with this, and the banks are trusting you to be able to pay it back. This isn't always the case however so government steps in. After reading the 'Ha-Joon Chang from the 23 things they don't tell you about capitalism' I realised a whole lot more was based on trust. Most people work, not only to earn money and support their families, but also for the passion, pride and self respect they get from their job in a well run business with managers that know how to motivate their staff. They have to trust their staff and encourage them in the right ways. Constantly checking up on them or suspecting them of things and treating them like machines will not achieve a good business. This was discovered by the Human Relation School that came out in the 1930's after it was realised that making workers work as fast as they could would increase their productivity made them passive and not think or co-operate. Another example on trust came from the point made about getting taxi's. You could easily jump out a taxi in a busy city and not pay but in society that's wrong and few people do it. The trust is from both sides, the customer trusts the taxi driver to take them to the