Invitation to economics: understanding argument and policy

Economics embedded in philosophy and sociology

The Subject of Economics

What economists do

How well do they do it?

Some Infrastructure

Beguiling words

Important economic ideas: often misunderstood

Economic Theory and Policy

The Crown Jewel of economics: the price mechanism

Risk taking and incentives

Looking around corners

Natural resources and environmental economics

Looking at Data

Empirical economics

Some simple (?) ways of presenting data: percentages, figures, and graphs

Samples and their problems

Regressions: the workhorse of empirical economics

The workhorse in action: some examples of empirical economics.