Economics has largely been considered an elitist subject, which has no relevance to real life, and con not be understood or explained in everyday language. We beg to differ. Not only do we believe that we can explain economics in simple terms, but also we have to do so. Economics is far more relevant to everyone’s life that we all have to understand it to conduct our economic affairs in a more educated manner. To this end, we take the challenge of discussing economic issues in a language, which is easily communicated to general public. In these pages, faculty from Economics Department at the American University of Sharjah will write concise, but clear opinion articles on issues of importance to a wider audience. They will appear in these pages once a month.

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Discussion # 1: Financial Crisis in Plain English.pdf

Discussion # 2: Where does the money go? Remittances fleeing the GCC countries.pdf