I disagree. I hold an unusual opinion that all congress members should be required to take an economics class before assuming office because they literally are

I disagree. I hold an unusual opinion that all congress members should be required to take an economics class before assuming office because they literally are the ones running our economy. Learning economics helps your thought process in many ways and makes you a better decision maker when it comes to deciding on micro and macroeconomic policies. Weighing benefits, negative externalities, and costs when making investments or policies is exactly what economics trains you best for. Our brains are not designed for decision making involving large numbers of people or large sums of money and by default we fall back on making emotional decisions based on anecdotal experiences. The teaching of Economics helps keep your logic side front and center and allows you to make better, more efficient, and more impactful decisions at lower social and economic costs than would be arrived at by default. Are you able to understand the implications and effects of taxes and government spending when there are 2 trillion dollar deficits instead of 2 billion dollar deficits? Economics-style thinking is very valuable. If you weren't blessed to have had a great economics professor in your high-school and college years, I recommend reading Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. It was a required reading for my AP economics course and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it cover-to-cover.