I was, and still am extremely grateful for my microeconomics prof: he is a contrarian (http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canadian-economist-never-knew-he-would-

I was, and still am extremely grateful for my microeconomics prof: he is a contrarian (http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canadian-economist-never-knew-he-would-become-centre-of-a-u-s-firestorm-over-his-research-on-same-sex-parenting http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canadian-economist-never-k...) that forced us to reason on a wide class of non-societal examples from first principles whenever possible. As far as being politicized goes, macroecon seems to be a bit more plagued than micro, mod any "homo economicus" fallacies. He also writes stuff like this: https://www.amazon.com/Institutional-Revolution-Measurement-Emergence-Governments/dp/0226014746/ https://www.amazon.com/Institutional-Revolution-Measurement-... which showed me how effective economics can be for historical and legal analysis. The natural sciences have a difficult time mapping onto human concerns bar whatever you get out of engineering.