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Forget Piketty's 700-Page Tome - Here Is The Shortest Economics Textbook Ever

• zerohedge.com

And here they are... the 5 things they don't tell you about economics...

1. 95% of economics is common sense

You don't need a degree to understand it

 We've got this profession wrong; a lot of professional economists think what they do is too difficult for ordinary people. You'd be surprised how often these people are stupid enough to say things, at least in private, like 'you wouldn't understand what I do even if I explained it to you'. If you cannot explain it to other people, you have the problem.

 People express strong opinions on all sorts of things despite not having the appropriate expertise: climate change, gay marriage, the Iraq War, nuclear power stations. But when it comes to economic issues, many people are not even interested, not to speak of not having a strong opinion about them. When was the last time you had a debate on the future of the Euro, inequality in China or the American manufacturing industry, despite the fact that these issues can have a huge impact on your life, wherever you live?


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