>I find it very dubious that the "Income Inequality" sits at the very first section, and "Supply-and-demand" at the eighth. I'm no established economist, but my

>I find it very dubious that the "Income Inequality" sits at the very first section, and "Supply-and-demand" at the eighth. I'm no established economist, but my understanding is you start at the foundational idea then move on to the its ramifications and symptoms. They literally answer this in the preface, its worth giving that a read first before moving on through the book. "We ask students: ‘What is the most pressing problem that economists should address?’ The word cloud below shows the response that students at Hum­boldt University gave to us on the first day of their first class in economics." They want to change the way economics is taught, and the students they surveyed felt inequality was a more pressing problem than anything else.