milton freemont had the example of saying think how complicates it is to deliver a pencil.ood, and the runner, and the met with tal and the graphite and paint and delivery and assembly and you gate pencil for $1 or whatever it is cost. markets can do that because the invisible hand says even though each participant is working for their own interest only and there's no central planners involved, that markets still work somehow to deliver that result. and indeed, there's a lot of evidence, i think it's clear to everybody that looking around the world that markets have played a tremendous role in creating the wealthy that we see in rich countries and in emerging that is markets that are becoming rich. so markets are an amazing thing, and getting students to appreciate what markets can do is an important part of teaching economic. that being said, the next level up is to understand that markets also have problems. there are market failure, there's monopoly, there's external, there's many other extra things that can go wrong in markets and understanding how to fix the problems i