Why Activists Must Study Economics: Get ready for Economics for Everyone, an indispensable upcoming resource

Our Schools, Our Selves | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

Never trust an economist with your job

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 fit into the big economic picture, and how well they are doing. All of this is entirely legitimate fodder for economics.

Unfortunately, in my view, most professional economists don't think about economics in this common-sense, ...

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