Invitation to economics: understanding argument and policy

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