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s4h-economics
Entry point for the economics toolkit. Routes to the right economics skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'economics', 'what's the incentive here', 'what am I giving up', 'who pays for this', 'should we do more or less of this', 'why won't people cooperate', 'externality', 'opportunity cost', 'marginal', or want economic reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
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# Economics
Applies economic reasoning to decisions, organisations, and systems. Diagnoses what kind of analysis is needed and routes to the right tool. Economics is not just about money — it is about how incentives shape behaviour, how choices foreclose alternatives, and why individually rational actors so often produce collectively irrational outcomes.
## Which tool fits
| You need to... | Tool |
|---|---|
| Map what you're actually giving up by choosing this | opportunity-cost |
| Understand who benefits, who pays, and what behaviours follow | incentive-mapping |
| Identify costs or benefits falling on parties outside the decision | externalities |
| Apply the logic of the next unit — sunk costs, average vs. marginal | margin |
| Diagnose why rational individuals keep producing bad collective outcomes | coordination |
