Invitation to economics : understanding argument and policy / Thomas Mayer.

The subject of economics
What economists do
How well do they do it?
Some infrastructure
Beguiling words
Important economic ideas: often misunderstood
Economic theory and policy
The Crown Jewel of economics: the price mechanism
Risk taking and incentives
Looking around corners
Natural resources and environmental economics
Looking at data
Empirical economics
Some simple (?) ways of presenting data: percentages, figures, and graphs
Samples and their problems
Regressions: the workhorse of empirical economics
The workhorse in action: some examples of empirical economics.