Economics
Mathematically structured — not narrative
Utility → preferences → markets → game theory → information → mechanism design → macro → monetary → political → computational.
Utility Theory
Preferences, Value, and Choice
Preference orderings, utility functions, marginal utility, risk and expected utility, consumer welfare.
Preferences & Choice
Rationality Axioms and Revealed Preference
Choice under certainty, rationality axioms, revealed preference, behavioral deviations, social choice.
Market Equilibrium
Supply, Demand, and Welfare
Competitive equilibrium, welfare theorems, market failures, externalities, general equilibrium.
Game Theory Foundations
Strategic Interaction in Economics
Strategic form games applied to economics, bargaining, auctions, price theory and strategic behavior.
Information Asymmetry
Adverse Selection, Moral Hazard, Signaling
Adverse selection, moral hazard, signaling and screening, principal-agent models.
Mechanism Design
Engineering Incentive-Compatible Systems
Revelation principle, incentive compatibility, VCG mechanisms, optimal mechanism design.
Macroeconomic Systems
Aggregate Dynamics and Policy
Aggregate demand and supply, fiscal and monetary policy, business cycles, growth theory.
Monetary Structures
Money, Banking, and Credit
Money and monetary systems, banking and credit creation, central banking, digital money.
Political Economy
Institutions, Power, and Distribution
Public choice theory, redistribution and taxation, regulatory capture, global political economy.
Computational Economics
Agent-Based Models and Algorithmic Markets
Agent-based modeling, market simulation, algorithmic economics, machine learning in economics.
Interactive Labs
Manipulate a system; watch the math predict.
Utility & Indifference
Budget line meets the highest attainable indifference curve.
Market Equilibrium
Tâtonnement dynamics and deadweight loss from price ceilings.
Second-Price Auction
Why truthful bidding dominates, across a thousand trials.
Lemons Market
Adverse selection unraveling in one equation.
Cournot vs. Bertrand
Best-response curves and the equilibrium they determine.
Guided instruction and research mentorship are offered separately → hbar.work