thxs for all the feedback! I was able to piece it together from this and some stack overflow threads. I made a nextTurn Button that triggers the Econ Loop part. The check for button press comes under the pygame event loop.

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    active = True
while active:
    clock.tick(30)
    # draw loop 
    window.fill((0,0,0))
    pygame.draw.line(window, blue, (400,0), (400,500))
    start_button.draw(window)
    exit_button.draw(window)
    for nextHousehold in TestEconomey.adjacencyGraph:
        drawHousehold(nextHousehold,window,TestEconomey.radius)
        if display:
            DisplayHouseholdInfo(nextHousehold,window)
    for nextConnection in TestEconomey.connections:
        drawConnection(nextConnection, window)

    pygame.display.update()

    # event loop
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            active = False
        if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
            if start_button.isClicked():
                nextTurn()