![]() So, coming from that perspective, it's kind of gutsy to cover nearly half of the cover with the word "ECONOMIX." There's only so much excitement and interest an "X" can add to the word. They expect teachers that talk in Ben Stein's monotonal voice, and to fall asleep as soon as they open the textbook. People are fearful of studying it, and if they are forced into an economics class, they subconsciously set themselves up for a difficult time. That's why you see what amounts to guesswork in even the most highly visible economic jobs in the world.Īnd because of all that, economics comes to the table with a bad rap. ![]() Second, in part because of that intersection, economists frequently don't fully understand the subject themselves. Which means that right-brained people have trouble with the analytical half of economics, while left-brained people have more trouble with the fact that people don't neatly fit into mathematical constructs. Which means that it has the hard and fast rules of arithmatic, but with a lot of fuzziness that one might see in sociology. First, it lies in this weird intersection of social science and math. There are a couple problems with studying economics, generally speaking. ![]() ![]() Author Michael Goodwin notes in the preface that he wanted to relay what he thought was the broad story of economics, but he chose comics as the medium because it was more accessible than anything else. It's a crash course in economics put together in the form of a comic. I recently picked up the 2012 book Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work). ![]()
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