Reading Notes on Dasgupta's "Economics: A Very Short Introduction"
why would one want to think like an economist? What is thinking like an economist—rather than like a sociologist (looking for the webs of human connections and common belief), a political scientist (looking at power and at authority both given and taken), or a historian (looking at origins and development)? One wants to think like an economist because it is an especially useful way of thinking about the economy. What, then, is the economy? And why is “thinking like an economist”—marginal, interdependence, benefit-cost, and opportunity cost calculations—a good way of understanding it?
Partha Dasgupta provides the best short answer to those two linked questions, and in the process of doing so provides the best introduction to economics, that I have seen
https://www.icloud.com/pages/0CLYIvKyZgxnRUMDgkL7RyWZQ
https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0hD8Le6gFIjTAwOWnBGv8PF5A
Partha Dasgupta: Economics: A Very Short Introduction https://delong.typepad.com/files/dasgupta-economics.pdf
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