Fall 2011, I took econ 2101, the Global Economy, with Dr. Christine Ries. I signed up for this class on a whim becuase of the interesting intersection of computer science and economics (e-commerce, e-currency, bitcoin, etc.). Later I changed by mind, but by that time the other classes that I wanted to take were full at all of the decent times. While I have mixed feeling about dominant economic thought, I figured that the class would be interesting and was not eager to drop it for a morning class; however, if I knew the following things, I probably would have changed my mind…