Much of the usefulness of economic theory can be found in its application to your personal economic life. That is to say, lurking behind such concepts as opportunity cost, present value, supply and demand, and competitive markets are applications to your everyday life. The goal of this guide is to help you not only to retain the most important principles that you will learn by using Economics Today, but also to allow you to apply them to problems that face you today, tomorrow, and for the rest of your life.

• Preliminary Study Tips
  
  
• Introduction
  
  
• On Doing Things Almost Well
  
  
• Get All the Education You Can Get, or Maybe Not
  
  
• The Importance of Thinking Marginally
  
  
• Paying Rent: Is it Throwing Good Money Away?
  
  
• We Couldn't Afford to Buy This House if We Had to Buy it Today
  
  
• Interest Rates Are so High I Can't Afford to Buy a House, a Car, or a Big Boat
  
  
• Getting Tax Refunds
  
  
• Living Without Debt
  
  
• How Much Are You Willing to Pay for That New-Car Smell?
  
  
• So You've Just Won Your Lawsuit
  
  
• Should I Purchase a Lottery Ticket?
  
  
• There Must Be Some Way to Get Rich Quickly
  
  
• Using Economics to Filter the News
  
  
• Career Choices
  
  
• Careers in Economics
  
  
• Why Economics is Good Training No Matter What You Do
  
  

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