This book is in the same genre as Professor Levitt’s Freakonomics and Professor Chang’s Economics: The User’s Guide. All of them focus on the economics of real-world issues, with minimal jargon and mathematics. The difference is that Core Economics reflects not only my academic background but also my years of worldwide practitioner experience as an economist.

It’s not a textbook. Not even close because it has none of the formalisms of a textbook. Instead, the book is a bit like a chat with my readers. It’s a learning book. It reflects my sense of a new learning/teaching paradigm aimed at people outside the classroom.

I have written this book mainly for people worldwide who have already finished their formal education, but want to learn the core ideas and principles in Economics, with plenty of real-world applications.