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Economics for Everyone
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Most people think economics is a technical, confusing, and even
mysterious subject. It’s a fi eld best left to the experts: namely, the
economists.
But in reality, economics should be quite straightforward. After all,
economics is simply about how we work. What we produce. And how
we distribute and ultimately use what we’ve produced. Economics is
about who does what, who gets what, and what they do with it.
At that simplest, grass-roots level, we all know something about
the economy. And so we should all have something to say about
economics.
Moreover, because we interact, cooperate, and clash with each
other in the economy (even Robinson Crusoe didn’t work alone – he
had Friday around to help), economics is a social subject. It’s not
just technical, concrete forces like technology and productivity that
matter. It’s also the interactions and relationships between people
that make the economy go around.
So you don’t need to be an economist to know a lot about
economics. Everyone experiences the economy. Everyone contributes
to it, one way or another. Everyone has an interest in the economy:
in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests
it functions. And everyone has a grass-roots sense of where they
personally fi t into the big economic picture, and how well they are
doing (compared to others, compared to the past, and compared to
their expectations). This is the stuff economics should be made of
Jim Stanford - Personal Name
1st Edition
978 0 7453 2750 1
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Economics for Everyone
Management
English
Pluto Press
2008
London
1-361
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