Economics

<p>Apart from the obvious mathematical topics like GDP and supply and demand, would you all consider economics to be (like math) reasoing based or (like history) all memorization and regurgitation?</p>

<p>I’m in macroeconomics and I’ve taken three tests so far, and I’ve studied for them all, though not much. But it seems like on every test there are these questions that I don’t really understand but still manage to get right by way of reasoning through them and eliminating obvious wrong answers. Is this b/c I didn’t study enough, or is this just the way econ is? Also, when I’m reading the textbook, I find that most of the info, if I really think about it, is pretty obvious, though certainly not all of it.</p>

<p>Has anybody else experienced this?</p>

<p>Economics is somewhat math based. You will have formulas that are usually based on some sort of calculus to find out certain things, but most of it is just learning how everything works together. Yeah it really is a lot of reasoning for me as well. If you just sit and think about what they are asking you its not to hard to figure out, especially if you read/study/go to lecture.</p>