The education plan

I feel very inadequate in my job.  People I am working with acutally have real economics degrees.  To remedy this, I am attempting to educate myself through a few things:

* <b>Reading economics blogs including EnvEcon, Freakonomics, Core Economics, and Parentonomics (this last one just because it is fun).</b>  I have been doing this for some time, I've added them to my rss feed on google reader, which is now mostly made up of economics posts with the odd CuteOverload post breaking things up.

* <b>Reading through an introductory economics textbook</b>.  This used to be my sister's at school - I can't say how much I regret not taking economics at school, but I might as well remedy it as much as possible.  Don't get me wrong - I know the basics of economics; demand and supply curves, opportunity costs, discount rates, etc., but it'd be good to just get some solid economic foundation in, and it'd be good to refresh my mind as well.  There's about 30 chapters - so I would like to say I could finish this in a month but the reality is probably that this would take about 3 months, at the very least.  Still, I think this is quite important and I hope I can keep up with this.

* <b>Reading through some handouts for a university's environmental economics course</b>. This is probably not as important as the others as I will probably have seen most of the material here on my own course, but again it'd be good for refreshing my memory, and may perhaps be slightly more in-depth than my course, or cover slightly different topics.

It's a lot to do, but I am fed up with feeling inadequate, and I already feel reading the economics blogs have helped me quite a bit, so I hope by sticking with the plan I will feel at least a bit less inadequate.