The subject of economics -- What economists do -- How well do they do it? -- Some infrastructure -- Beguiling words -- Important economic ideas: often misunderstood -- Economic theory and policy -- The Crown Jewel of economics: the price mechanism -- Risk taking and incentives -- Looking around corners -- Natural resources and environmental economics -- Looking at data -- Empirical economics -- Some simple (?) ways of presenting data: percentages, figures, and graphs -- Samples and their problems -- Regressions: the workhorse of empirical economics -- The workhorse in action: some examples of empirical economics.
