Economics is greatly impacted by how well information travels through society. Today, social media giants Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are major forces on the information super highway. (Credit: modification of "Social Media Mixed Icons - Banner" by Blogtrepreneur/Flickr, CC BY 2.0) · CC BY 2.0 · Source出典
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Economics is greatly impacted by how well information travels through society. Today, social media giants Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are major forces on the information super highway. (Credit: modification of "Social Media Mixed Icons - Banner" by Blogtrepreneur/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
英語のヒント
社会の中で情報がどれほどうまく伝わるかは、経済に大きな影響を与える。今日、巨大なソーシャルメディアであるTwitter、Facebook、Instagramは、情報スーパーハイウェイの大きな力となっている。（出典：Blogtrepreneurによる「Social Media Mixed Icons - Banner」／Flickr、CC BY 2.0を改変）
Learning Objectives学習目標
What is economics and why should you spend your time learning it? After all, there are other disciplines you could be studying, and other ways you could be spending your time. As the Bring it Home feature just mentioned, making choices is at the heart of what economists study, and your decision to take this course is as much as economic decision as anything else.
Economics is probably not what you think. It is not primarily about money or finance. It is not primarily about business. It is not mathematics. What is it then? It is both a subject area and a way of viewing the world.
