Suppose you were having lunch withyour best friend who just enrolled in an economics class. He wascomplaining about how irrelevant the class was, commenting that hesaw no useful purpose for economics. According to your friend,"I'm a nursing major. I will never use this stuff inthe real world." Having just completed the same course ineconomics, you try to explain to your friend that economics affectseveryone! How would you explain to this person that economics is a daily part of his personal and professional lives?