Welcome to Learn-Economics.com, where I'm going to give you
the resources to quickly and efficiently learn a ton about how the world
economy operates.
For those of you who are reading through my best seller,
Economics for Dummies,
I've arranged a huge amount of information for you, organizing it to match
the chapters in the book. You can see the links below.
But if you haven't read the book yet,
don't worry. I've designed this website to make it totally user
friendly for people who are just starting to learn about economics. Just
click around and enjoy.
I've also organized a bunch of
important links by the categories you see above: Economic Data, Economic
Research, and Economic Policy. These links will lead you to a huge
treasure trove of information on just about every aspect of economics.
So whether you want to browse those categories or read
though all the other stuff that I've organized by chapter, start clicking and start
learning!
Table of Contents
Chapter 1:
What Does Economics Study, and Why Should You Care?
Chapter 2: Cookies or Ice Cream?
Tracking Consumer Choices
Chapter 3: Producing the Right
Stuff the Right Way to Maximize Human Happiness
Chapter 4: Measuring the
Macroeconomy: How Economists Keep Track of Everything
Chapter 5: Inflation Frustration:
Why More Money Isn't Always a Good Thing
Chapter 6: Understanding Why
Recessions Happen
Chapter 7: Fighting Recessions With
Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Chapter 8: Supply and Demand Made
Easy
Chapter 9: Getting to Know
Homo Economicus, the Utility Maximizing Consumer
Chapter 10: The Core of Capitalism: The
Profit-Mazimizing Firm
Chapter 11: Why Economists Love
Free Markets and Competition
Chapter 12: Monopolies: How Badly
Would You Behave if You Had No Competition
Chapter 13: Oligopoly and
Monopolistic Competition: Middle Grounds
Chapter 14: Property Rights and
Wrongs
Chapter 15: Market Failure:
Asymmetric Information and Public Goods
Chapter 16: Ten (Or So) Famous Economists
Chapter 17: Ten Seductive Economic
Fallacies
Chapter 18: Ten Economic Ideas to
Hold Dear
