another place to start

Gil Guillory adds this comment to my recent where to begin post on learning economics:

One thing you missed was Skousen's Economics on Trial. This is a good book for folks who want to see their confusing college econ 101 textbook exploded. I picked it up while in grad school and thereafter read Hazlitt, Cox, Rothbard, Mises, etc.

Cox's work is undervalued, in my opinion. I have used it very successfully. But, it needs a complementary work that answers questions such as the ones you pose in a very short kind of economics catechism.

I'd never heard of Skousen's book, but it's extremely well reviewed over at Amazon, so I ordered a copy. Skousen seems to have written quite a bit on the subject.