[rajacombinator]

Go read a basic micro 101 book, discard everything else. Especially scientism gobbledegook written by physical science wannabes.

[lordCarbonFiber]

That's not terrible advice from the perspective of forming an academic foundation, but otherwise falls pretty short. If economics was as trivial as an introductory freshman course there wouldn't be a contested field attempting to build models.

Relevant comic and all that jazz: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3117