Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Announcement — Tutorial Seeking the Right Audience


How the Economy Works — a Visual Tutorial seeks the right audience of would-be learners. This seems most likely to be:
1.  People who would like to learn more about the nuts and bolts of how the economy works and some of the things wrong with conventional wisdom, but don’t have the time or patience for the econoblogosphere, academic papers, or textbooks. 
2.  Newcomers to MMT interested in a “quick start” overview before delving deeper into the core MMT material available at Mosler Economics, Billy Blog, Economics Perspective from Kansas City, etc.
The feedback a few months ago when I put the first draft online was positive and responses suggested the material worthy of recommending to others. (And I have been attempting improvements ever since, though the core set of topics/pages covered has not changed, so you probably won’t see much that’s new if you’ve already gone through it).
So lest it just gather dust, please consider passing the link on to interested friends / family / etc if you believe doing so could be beneficial. I hope at least a few will use the variety of available mechanisms to give feedback on which parts are easy to understand and which parts still need more clarity… and optimizing the content as I get feedback will be an ongoing project for me.
http://econviz.org/how-the-economy-works-visual-tutorial/
Read it at EconViz.org Blog —Updates and Discussion of Macroeconomic Visualizations

Tutorial Seeking the Right Audience
by hbl

4 comments:

Trixie said...

Wow, what a fantastic idea. Will be spending some time over there when I get a chance. Thanks for sharing this, Tom.

geerussell said...

Also worth a look is the balance sheet visualizer at the same site.

hbl said...

Tom, thanks for posting.

To anyone headed over to EconViz for the first time -- if you don't like what you find, please tell me! (There are anonymous in-page feedback forms plus blog comment sections).

Got my first strongly negative comment today and it's refreshing. (Thanks, whoever it was). I'd rather know the negative opinions than not know!

wilwon32 said...

Nicely done!