Barbecue Economics: Be Your Neighborhood Expert on Demand, Supply, and the Free Market

This is a book about economics, but it is not an economics book. It is a businessman's perspective on the principles of economics and how they affect the potential for growth and prosperity in a free market environment. You will know just enough economics to make you the expert at the backyard barbecue.

We start with the underpinnings of economic science, the ideas of scarcity, marginal reasoning, incentives, and opportunity cost, highlighting Adam Smith's writings of the late 18th century i...