Econ Major
Undergrad economics reading list shaped like a four-course sequence — Micro, Macro, Money & Banking, and an applied capstone. Mankiw-flavored, builds intuition before introducing markets.
Who it’s for: College students enrolled in or recently finished an economics undergrad; lifelong learners who want the academic-econ frame rather than the practitioner frame.
Start this track → — no account needed; the lessons are free.
Microeconomics for Investors
- Supply, Demand & Market Prices
- Elasticity: Why Some Companies Have Pricing Power
- Opportunity Cost: The Hidden Price of Every Investment
- Costs of Production: Reading a Company's Margin Structure
- Perfect Competition: Why Commodity Businesses Struggle
- Monopoly Power: The Economics Behind Competitive Moats
- Monopolistic Competition: Brand Value and Differentiation
- Time Value of Money: Why a Dollar Today Beats a Dollar Later
- Externalities: ESG Risks and Regulatory Costs — Externalities as investment risk: how unpriced harms become sudden regulatory costs, and why ESG analysis matters even for non-ethical investors.
- From Economics to Stock Analysis
Macroeconomics for Investors
- Inflation: What It Is and Why It Matters
- The Fed and Interest Rates: How Policy Moves Markets
- The Yield Curve, in Plain English
- GDP: What the Economy Actually Produces
- The Business Cycle: Timing the Economic Seasons
- Fiscal Policy: Government Spending, Taxes, and Deficits
- The Fed’s Advanced Toolkit: QE, QT, and Forward Guidance
- Trade, Exchange Rates, and the Dollar
- Financial Crises: How Economies Break Down