Economics is moral reasoning about scarcity, incentives, justice, and calling — with real tools, not slogans. The primary path is sixteen weeks: eight weeks of microeconomics, then eight weeks of macroeconomics. An 8-week survey remains available for single-semester co-ops.
Module A — Microeconomics (Weeks 1–8)
- Scarcity, trade-offs, and biblical foundations
- Pre-modern markets
- Adam Smith and the invisible hand
- Supply, demand, elasticity, and price signals
- Market structures: competition to monopoly
- Labor markets and human capital
- Market failure and government failure
- Behavioral economics and ethics capstone
Module B — Macroeconomics (Weeks 9–16)
- Measuring the economy: GDP, unemployment, inflation
- Growth and development
- Money, banking, and the Fed
- Monetary policy: rules vs discretion
- Fiscal policy: stimulus, crowding out, debt
- Financial crises
- Globalization and supply-chain fragility
- Policy, justice, and economic calling
Readings, labs, cases, and homework each week. Scripture is the foundation, not the trim.