That's not terrible advice from the perspective of forming an academic foundation, but otherwise falls pretty short. If economics was as trivial as an introduc

That's not terrible advice from the perspective of forming an academic foundation, but otherwise falls pretty short. If economics was as trivial as an introductory freshman course there wouldn't be a contested field attempting to build models. Relevant comic and all that jazz: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3117 http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3117