As a student interested in international development and trade, it seemed to make a lot of sense to me to try and take some economics classes during my time here at UBC.  Last term I took intro to microeconomics and this term I took intro to macroeconomics.  I found both classes to be extremely frustrating as everything we learned was presented as absolute fact and in an almost scientific fashion.  Although I understand the rational behind supply and demand and I get how certain actions in the market can fairly safely predict common outcomes, I don’t believe that these results are an absolute given.  Both classes completely ignored the fact that human beings are caring and social creatures and instead chose to focus on the perverted idealization of economic growth above everything else in the world.  The idea that my professor could stand up in front of our class everyday and talk about economic theories as though they were the laws of physics was laughable to me.  These classes really made me realize how disconnected people have become from one another in the name of wealth and growth.