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Economics 101, A Novel (A College and Desert Island Love Story) by Joel Matthew Rees (Copyright 2016-2021, Joel Matthew Rees.) A...

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Title Page/Table of Contents -- Economics 101, a Novel

Economics 101, A Novel

(A College and Desert Island Love Story)

by Joel Matthew Rees
(Copyright 2016-2021, Joel Matthew Rees.)
All rights reserved.

 

This is intended as a simplified discussion of some of the basics of economics, in the form of a novel. It is not intended to constitute a complete theory. Fundamental to economics is a values framework of reference, and we want to simplify that.

Imagine how it would be if you were suddenly stranded on a desert island with your study partner, with whom you had been talking seriously about marriage. And you were both faithful followers of a religion that frowns on behaving as if you're married without actually getting married. What would that do to your individual and shared concepts of value?

(Perhaps I should be consider it assumed, but I will note here that the story contains some discussion of matters of a sexual nature. I will try to warn the cautious reader.) 

[JMR202104291249: I am bringing each chapter in below as I complete the necessary edits.]

  1. Preamble
         -1. Value Added by Exchange
    1. The Framing Story (and Author's Foreword)
  2. Entering College (in which meet Bobbie and Karel and a couple of their friends):
    1. Introducing Bobbie
    2. Introducing Karel
    3. Introducing Karel to Bobbie, And Vice Versa
    4. Going by Four
      1. Letters Home
      2. (Optional) Hexadecimal Time
  3. First Semester (in which the four friends build their relationships with each other and with other students)
    1. Talking about Missions
    2. Beliefs and Attitudes
    3. Talking about Temples
    4. More Togetherness
  4. Heading Back for the Second Semester (in which we listen to them discuss certain matters of sexual nature among other things on the road back to school.)
  5. Second Semester (in which things become a little more complicated)
    1. Back to School
    2. Dating Others
    3.  


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[JMR202104291249: Rough draft table of contents here, for my own convenience: 
https://free-is-not-free.blogspot.com/2016/08/table-of-contents-for-economics-101.html
Rough draft chapters not brought over yet listed below.]





I had thought the rough draft was pretty much complete. There are at least one or two boring novels in the above, but I may continue to add chapters just for fun.

For some reason, it was surprising to me how quickly the story got mushy. I did not intend to write one of those pulp romance novels, here. I guess, since the simplification requires two people, and since human nature in the equations required that to be a male-female pair, it shouldn't have been surprising.

No, I did not intend the epilogue-turned-prologue to be chapter 42. Pure chance. If I had planned it that way, of course it wouldn't have worked. I had intended to write a few chapters getting their hut built, and move them out of the tent before what ended up as chapter 40, in case anyone is curious. I just ran out of time. (Which may be just as well, because I was also thinking about having them jump a shark or two in the process. :)




* Original contents of this redirect post:
http://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.com/2016/08/table-of-contents-for-economics-101.html

* Original of this table of contents:

http://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.com/2016/04/economics-101-novel-rough-draft-index.html




Some attempts at revisions:

* Starting a second draft of the island story:
https://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.jp/2016/06/econ101-novel-toc.html

* Starting a second draft of the college story (that went way overboard):
https://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.jp/2017/01/soc500-00-00-toc.html

* An embarrassing beginning of a fourth (or was it fifth) draft:
http://econ101-novel.blogspot.jp/2017/04/e00-table-of-contents-title-page.html

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