{"id":59,"date":"2007-12-25T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/?p=59"},"modified":"2007-12-25T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T15:34:00","slug":"economics-can-be-interesting-and-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/economics-can-be-interesting-and-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics can be interesting and useful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a lot of people economics can be a dry and uninteresting subject but it can be fascinating and practical for building models that can make a difference in living a better life.<\/p>\n<p>Lifehack.org has a reference to a series of articles on economics by Arnold Kling topics &#8220;Fifty Essential Topics in Economics&#8221; that could be considered a course in economic concepts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/lifehack\/fifty-essential-topics-on-economics.html\">http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/lifehack\/fifty-essential-topics-on-economics.html<\/a><span style=\"color:#1919ff;text-decoration:underline;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span>I particularly liked the article on calculations to determine if investing in a time share makes sense &#8211; not that I have ever been tempted to do so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bestsellers.about.com\/od\/nonfictionreviews\/gr\/freakonomics_r.htm\">Freakonomics<\/a> was a good book and <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/21\/the-freak-est-links-84\/\">the blog<\/a> has a series of interesting articles too.<br \/><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Economics\" rel=\"tag\">Economics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a lot of people economics can be a dry and uninteresting subject but it can be fascinating and practical for building models that can make a difference in living a better life. Lifehack.org has a reference to a series of articles on economics by Arnold Kling topics &#8220;Fifty Essential Topics in Economics&#8221; that could &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/economics-can-be-interesting-and-useful\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Economics can be interesting and useful<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUBG8-X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}