I gather that it's even worse than that: I've heard that Econ 101 teaches those commonly heard things (supply/demand curves, inflation, etc) so that higher-level courses can then contextualize why they're so wrong and oversimplistic when they teach the "real" current theory (kinda like how we still teach the "electrons orbiting a nucleus" model in HS physics only for undergrad-level physics to say "that's all wrong: their position is described by a probability-density wave-function".
Gotta start somewhere, I guess - but I'm just afraid that because I'm nowhere near an expert that I'll be bamboozled by someone with legitimate qualifications, but without realizing that they're actually still not qualified to speak about the subject either.
Gotta start somewhere, I guess - but I'm just afraid that because I'm nowhere near an expert that I'll be bamboozled by someone with legitimate qualifications, but without realizing that they're actually still not qualified to speak about the subject either.