Economics: No, it's not about money, interest rates or efficiency.

First off: I can't really blame peoples understanding of economics, as it is a where the dialogue is left out, a topic that doesn't really make part of everyday conversations.
It's not your fault, people. The truth is that there is an inherent core problem to economics as science: a prevailing dogma, a uniform school of thought. Think of it as if Christianity was synonym to religion. That's what happened to economics, which is dominated by neoliberalism and neoclassical paradigms.

You know, economics has not always been about maths, interest rates, GDP and inflation.
Do you know that the use of mathematical models only started about during the 19th century? That Platon and Aristotle actually were economists themselves?
Do you know that economics is about people's life? About how we as humans interact with each other in order to "survive"? That this has hell a lot to do with culture and ethics?

That it is something so fundamental as is our daily bread? (In fact: people have to interact in order to even get their breads! Yes. It's that fundamental.)

During following posts I hope to lighten things up a little bit; to introduce you to "economics" from a different angle, a different point of view and to detect that foolish dogma of modern economists with their eternal occupation with mathematics, econometrics and efficiency.

(Don't turn away yet! I'm coming from philosophy and psychology myself, so economics really has a lot to do with that. Promised.)