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Chapter 2: Trade-Offs and Opportunity Cost — Economics 101

Every choice has a price tag, even when no money changes hands. This chapter introduces opportunity cost (the next-best alternative you gave up), marginal analysis (compare one more unit’s benefit to its cost), and the three core assumptions that classical economics quietly relies on.
Chapter 11: The Time Value of Money and Interest Rates — Economics 101

A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow — and that simple fact builds every interest rate you’ll ever encounter. The five-block stack: real rate, expected inflation, default risk, liquidity, and maturity premiums.
Chapter 18: Accounting Versus Economics — Economics 101

Why the same business can be profitable to an accountant and unprofitable to an economist — and why opportunity cost is the missing entry that decides whether resources are in their best use.
Economics 101 — Economics 101

A chapter-by-chapter synthesis of Alfred Mill & Michele Cagan’s Economics 101 — from scarcity and trade-offs through markets, money, GDP, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy.