ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book begins with a guide to the basic agreements and controversies surrounding the human rights topic. It provides effective economics training that can be used to analyze human rights issues. The book also provides access to an online journal that can be used for this purpose. It examines for those who want to understand how economic applications can address social issues and understand how economics can be applied to any topic. Economics is the study of choice when dealing with scarcity. Economics takes the approach of observation to create hypotheses, collecting data related to these hypotheses, analyzing this data, reporting outcomes as well as whether the hypotheses were proven true or false, or not proven, and recommending which variables could change the incentives that affect decision-makers.
