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Throughout your entire life and in nearly every circumstance, you will experience economics. Economics is a perspective. It's a way of looking at things. It's a science that allows us to make some very interesting conclusions and have some very interesting discussions. I created this site to allow you the opportunity to discover and discuss these ideas in intuitive ways through real world stories. You've probably read about so many economic concepts in the Wall Street Journal and now you have this site to provide the introductory economic intuition behind those newspaper stories.
This site is about learning (both me and you) and it's about discussion. I encourage you to leave questions and comments. I also recommend you subscribe to my RSS feed so that you can be notified instantly when a new post is up.
Also feel free me to email me with questions or comments at eliot@economicsofrealworld.com
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Beginnings Archive
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Supply and Demand: Part 2
Posted on June 15, 2011 | 1 CommentRight off the bat I will say that this post won’t really provide you much insight into the intuitive concepts of economics. I’m not really intending it to be that sort of post. I mentioned at the end of the first part of my Supply... -
Supply and Demand
Posted on May 26, 2011 | 1 CommentIt’s come the time, inevitable though it was, to talk about the concept nearly everyone recognizes to some degree when asked about economics. It’s the bread and butter, really. In my experience, using explicitly a supply and demand curve for analysis is actually rather rare.... -
The Monopoly Theory of Money and its History
Posted on April 19, 2011 | No CommentsExciting stuff! Double posts on your Monday afternoon! Seriously, the site has been slow to develop and now that I have some time I will be looking to get a lot more posts up. Let’s get that started right now… Recently, you have probably heard... -
An early example: what to have for dinner
Posted on July 8, 2010 | No CommentsI’ve decided to make these first few posts pretty linear in their subject content. What that means is that if you haven’t read the last few posts (particularly this one), you’re likely to get less out of the post. I’ve mentioned this before, but to... -
What is economics?
Posted on June 26, 2010 | 1 CommentIf you ask most people what economics is, chances are you will get a response that has something to do with supply and demand. “You’ve got one line that goes up, another that goes down, and they intersect at some point.” You might get a... -
What this site is all about
Posted on June 23, 2010 | 1 CommentIf you do a Google search on anything regarding economics, traditionally, two things will result. The first is some sort of wikipedia page for the economic topic you searched or relevant research journals from databases and universities. These two resources are fantastic in the information...