Reaction to Interview Project

At first, I was really confused as to how this project was going to turn out. After the project was over, I was think it was a great learning experience and I really enjoyed it. In the classroom, it is important to teach the importance and rules of economics, but it is another thing to actually go out and interview those who have had experience in the world of economics. I learned a great deal from the questions Joseph and Ken answered, from economics today and in the past. Each story related to something we had talked about in our class. After reviewing the results, you can see many differences and similarities, in the different generations, and how economics has personally played a big role in everyone’s life. Joseph, being the oldest member of my family, really gave me an idea of how different life was back then from his wages and learning what products he has seen drastically change over his lifetime.

Interviewing Ken, my dad, was also very informational because comparing his data to Joseph’s; some events were not far off. Lastly, I liked the idea of interviewing myself, because it was a time of reflection on my life. Everything that I had experienced in my life and then relating it to economics was a very different way of learning. I really liked this project a lot, because it was a way of learning economics not in the classroom, but in history and in my family. This project is an example of economics in everyone’s daily lives plays a big role and in my family it has played a big role. However, as it was everyone in my family, we share a lot of the same beliefs and experiences, so it would definitely be interesting to see the other classmates results as well, to compare the answers to theirs.