Principles of Economics/Preface/To The Student

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[edit] Dear Student

This text is currently under development. Ideally, when completed, this text will provide you with a very comprehensive and easy-to-understand introduction to economics. This text will assume no background in economics and will require very little of you mathematically. All you really need is an open mind and an interest in learning!

Please check back from time to time to monitor the text's progress and eventual completion!

Thank you,

Endless melee - Initiating Author

Why study economics?

Those who don't know what economics is say that it's boring. Those who do know what economics is say that it's dismal. The former say so because they are unable to visualize the cause and effect relationships so crucial to the discipline; the latter say so because so many of the conclusions found over the course of this study reveal saddening facts. Also, economics is certainly not particularly useful for pre-business students the way biology/chemistry is useful for pre-medical students, nor for a senior thesis. There won't be spectacular results to show off for knowing this material; it is not particularly useful in direct real-life application.

So why would you ever want to make economics your major?

Take it because it interests you.

Take it because monetary policy intrigues you, because you want to know the causes of inflation, because you wonder how the market works so flawlessly (or not), because you wish to comprehend socially applied concepts of efficiency, because the concepts of supply and demand are beautiful to you, because you find the analytical tools and theories of economics graceful, because you hope to learn more about the market and the "invisible hand", because...

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