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Economics in Two Lessons, Chapter 5

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Thanks to everyone who the first four chapters of my book, Economics in Two Lessons. I’m continuing with policy applications of Lesson 1: Market prices reflect and determine opportunity costs faced by consumers and producers. That will be followed by Lesson 2: Market prices don’t reflect all the opportunity costs we face as a society. Now here’s the draft of Chapter 5. Again, I welcome comments, criticism and encouragement. The book so far is availableTable of ContentsIntroduction.Chapter 1: What is opportunity cost?Chapter 2: Markets, opportunity cost and equilibriumChapter 3:Time, information and uncertaintydraft of Chapter 4:Lesson 1: Applications. Feel free to make further comments on these chapters if you wish.

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Thanks to everyone who the first four chapters of my book, Economics in Two Lessons. I’m continuing with policy applications of Lesson 1: Market prices reflect and determine opportunity costs faced by consumers and producers.
That will be followed by Lesson 2: Market prices don’t reflect all the opportunity costs we face as a society.

Now here’s the draft of Chapter 5. Again, I welcome comments, criticism and encouragement.

The book so far is available
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Chapter 1: What is opportunity cost?
Chapter 2: Markets, opportunity cost and equilibrium
Chapter 3:Time, information and uncertainty
draft of Chapter 4:Lesson 1: Applications.

Feel free to make further comments on these chapters if you wish.

John Quiggin
He is an Australian economist, a Professor and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a former member of the Board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government.

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