Economics
Economics is a much misunderstood and often ignored discipline that really deserves more attention from more of us. Often people listen to economists and trust their proclamations without question forgetting that economics is not a hard science like physics or chemistry but is in fact full of opinion and conjecture.
There are a number of reasons why so many people fail to connect with this subject. First of all, the language used by economists is more often than not impenetrable. The finance industry indulges in jargon almost like no other which obfuscates and confuses outsiders almost by design. For this reason economics bores so many of us, but as it affects all of our lives considerably we should all try to get past this and pay more attention to it. As mere mortals we all need to understand that the basic principles of economics are really quite simple.