Economics!?

Dan: Economics!?
I am a Junior Biology major in Kentucky. While I love Biology, I want to study Economics on my own time.?
How do I go about doing this! Thanks

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Answer by Homer J. Simpson
Here are some ideas:
1. If you still have time, why not pick up a minor in econ. After majoring in a hard science, undergraduate econ classes will be a breeze.

2. If you don’t want to commit to a minor, take a couple of econ classes as electives.

3. If you don’t want the pressure of more classes, you can always just sit in on some econ classes for fun. Since you are already going to classes, this option wouldn’t cost anything more than the time of sitting in on the classes.

4. buy an intro to micro text and intro to macro text and read the chapters that interest you. You can buy used books that are a couple of editions old for just a few bucks.

5. If you want something a little lighter than a textbook, the “for Dummies” and “idiot’s guide to” series have econ books that can be read cover to cover in a day or two.

Answer by bvgopinath2001
Study chemistry. That will help you understand economics. Study wealth the way chemists study matter. Study economics as a science that deals with nature, composition, properties, laws and classification. Just simply imagine: are not price of economics and equivalent weight of chemistry same? In a chemical reaction, matter reacts with another matter in the ratio of equivalent weight and in economics, one form of wealth gets exchanged or reacts with another form of wealth in the ratio of price.
Study Law of Conservation, Law of Equilibrium and Law Of Mass Action of chemical reactions. You will be mater of economics.

Answer by sburnett06
You seem like a serious student because you want to study for enjoyment or self improvement, so I’m not sure that a book for dummies is for you.
For starters I would keep this econ ball rolling by finding an area of economics that interests you. Wikipedia can help a lot with this by providing a wide range of topics for you that you can browse through. Economics is as much about intuition as it is theory and math, so do this will put you in the right direction from day one.
Once you have found what you enjoy, it is also key that you build a solid economic base. Probably the least fun but most efficient way to do this is go to your campus bookstore and find the intermediate micro/macro textbook and then simply rent these from your library. This is both free and easy. Once you have these tools you can explore any of the basic ideas that you have questions about, and most likely there will be nice examples so that the theory makes sense.

Answer by eileen
read newspapers’ economics pages and magazines