What Is Economics?

Required Reading

The Economic Approach to Human Behavior by Gary Becker, Chapter 1

Reading Guide: The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

Reading Response Assignment

Lecture Notes

What Is Economics?

Math Review Resources

Yale stats department notes on random variables

Yale stats department notes on probability distributions

Charles M. Grinstead and J. Laurie Snell’s Introduction to Probability (a whole stats textbook)

Joseph K. Blitzstein and Jessica Hwang’s Introduction to Probability (another whole stats textbook)

Further Reading

Planet Money: What Is the Most Useful Idea in Economics?