Economics: A Basic Course

Economics: A Basic Course provides students with the information they will need to evaluate situations that affect their economic lives. Such matters include issues relating to taxation, unemployment, prices and business costs, as well as information on the global economy. The material also provides students with the background they will need should they pursue more advanced courses in economics.

Gaining some insightfulness in economics will give students a better understanding of many of our society’s economic limitations, as well as an awareness of the arguments that underly many of our political debates, for we firmly believe that without an understanding of economics our understanding of political life is blurred.

The content, based on lecture notes that have been refined and delivered over a combined teaching period of seventy five years, features a narrative style - rather than the more formulaic style that’s followed by most other textbooks.

In addition, the text features minimal distracting photos / and images and utilizes bullets rather than longer paragraphs in order to promote a cleaner expression of ideas.

Overall, this is an economics text that is much less forbidding than others. Even its graphs are clear. They do not appear as mathematical abstractions but rather as valuable learning tools because they are all closely linked to real life examples.