Most would argue a wholehearted “yes,” as I would have, prior to this morning’s opening lecture in my Managerial Economics class. The professor made an interesting argument, though quite existential, that needs do not actually exist. You are probably scratching your head and are pondering our reliance on food, water and oxygen (as was I). Yet, if you follow the professor’s line of reasoning, we don’t actually need those things — we want them as a means to survive. And then, out of the blue, we are faced with the consideration that we don’t actually need to live. Instead, we continually choose to live and thus, want to consume the elements that will allow us to continue to attain that goal.

Sweet. I’d have to say that it was a very interesting way to open a course on Managerial Economics. I’m definitely interested to see what the remaining 10 1/2 weeks have in store.

TAGS: MBA | Economics | Life | Need

This entry was posted on Monday, September 19th, 2005 at 12:37 pm and is filed under CalPoly MBA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.