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Whatever You’re Building, Economics Makes You Better at It

You’re building something. Maybe it’s a business, a team, a career, or a stronger community. Whatever it is, you’re making decisions that matter—and you want to get them right.

EconomicsFor exists to give you an advantage: economic thinking that works in the real world.

The Problem We’re Solving

Most people think economics is about stock markets, GDP, and government policy. But economics is really about something much simpler: how people make decisions when they can’t have everything they want.

That means economics touches everything you do:

• Building a business? You’re making economic decisions about coordination, incentives, and growth.

• Managing a team? You’re dealing with economic problems around information, trade-offs, and specialization.

• Leading an organization? You’re navigating economic challenges of scale, efficiency, and innovation.

• Making career decisions? You’re weighing economic trade-offs between opportunity costs and comparative advantage.

The insights that could help you succeed already exist. Economists have spent decades figuring out why smart people make coordination mistakes, why good incentives backfire, and why organizations that optimize everything eventually stall.

But those insights are trapped in academic papers written for other economists.

EconomicsFor translates economic thinking into practical tools you can actually use.

What You’ll Find Here

Economics for Busy People (Mondays)

Quick, practical insights for everyday decisions. No jargon, no complicated theories—just clear thinking about real challenges in 5 minutes or less.

Economics for Organizations (Wednesdays)

How to use economic principles to build better teams, solve coordination problems, and create systems that actually work. Written for busy leaders and builders facing real-world complexity.

Economics for Citizens (Fridays, when timely)

Economic insights that help you make sense of policy debates, community challenges, and civic decisions.

Who This Is For

• Business leaders dealing with coordination and growth challenges

• Entrepreneurs making decisions under uncertainty

• Team leaders solving cross-functional problems

• Operators balancing efficiency with adaptability

• Anyone who wants to understand how the world actually works so they can make it work better

Why EconomicsFor Is Different

We focus on reality, not theory. The world doesn’t work like textbook models, and neither does our content.

We translate, not complicate. Complex economic ideas become simple tools you can use immediately.

We care about results, not credentials. What matters isn’t whether you can cite economic theory—it’s whether you can use economic thinking to build something better.

Who I Am

I’m Cameron Belt, an economist who spent six years at Uber and Lyft applying economic principles to real business challenges. I watched smart teams struggle with problems that economists had already solved—problems around coordination, incentives, scale, and innovation.

I’ve spent over 10,000 hours building private sector solutions to public problems across three domains: business operations, policy research, and academic work. This cross-sector experience taught me something important: the best economic insights don’t respect academic boundaries, and neither should the people who need them.

Now I translate those solutions for people like you: builders, leaders, and decision-makers who need practical tools, not academic papers.

My background (LinkedIn):

• M.A. in Economics

• 6 years in strategy, operations, and analytics at Uber and Lyft

• 10+ years researching barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation

• Co-Founder FLO Unleashed

• Senior Economist and Director of Research RCG Economics

• Senior Policy Fellow at Nevada Policy Institute

• Fellow at Club for Growth Foundation

• Author of Economics for Busy People and Growth Isn’t One Sided

The Promise

Whatever you’re building, economics can make you better at it.

Not because it gives you perfect answers, but because it helps you ask better questions. It helps you see patterns others miss, anticipate consequences before they happen, and make choices that align with how the world actually works—not how we wish it worked.

Economics is already shaping what you’re building.

EconomicsFor helps you shape it back.

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