around grade 3 → Econometrics
Choose a course designed around topics commonly taught at an approximate age or learning level. This is not school placement or equivalency; start where you feel comfortable and choose another course at any time.
Each level builds on the one before. Start wherever feels comfortable.
Microeconomics · Ages 14–18 · about 14.5 hours
Consumer choice, competitive markets, market power, factor markets and market failure: construct and audit quantitative conclusions under explicit economic assumptions.
Take first: Markets, prices and money, Algebra I
Reason from stated assumptions about aggregate production, economic indicators, fiscal and monetary mechanisms, long-run adjustment, and international transactions. Compute and construct tables, supplied graph points, and causal arguments while separating model implications from policy judgments.
Take first: Markets, prices and money, Algebra I
Intermediate economics · Ages 18+ · about 10.5 hours
Constrained choice, firms and equilibrium, strategic and informational limits, intertemporal risk, aggregate models and empirical identification. A bounded bridge using explicit models, not a claim of complete university-course equivalence.
Take first: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Calculus I
Econometrics · Ages 18+ · about 12.5 hours
Causal questions, least squares and its inference, multiple regression and omitted variables, what fails when assumptions fail, and the research designs economists use: experiments, instruments, panels, differences-in-differences and discontinuities, then time series.
Take first: Statistics and probability, Intermediate economics