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Description of economics
Economics can be described as all of the following:
Branches of economics
Macroeconomics – branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior,
and decision-making of an economy as a whole, rather than individual markets.
Microeconomics – branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in
making decisions regarding the allocation of limited resources.
Mesoeconomics In-between
Subdisciplines of economics
Agricultural economics
Attention economics
Behavioral economics
Classical economics
Comparative economic systems
Contract theory
Cultural economics
Demographic economics
Development economics
Ecological economics
Econometrics
Economic anthropology
Economic development
Economic geography
Economic history
Economic sociology
Economics of marriage
Education economics
Energy economics
Engineering economics
Entrepreneurial economics
Environmental economics
Family economics
Feminist economics
Financial economics
Georgism
Green economics
Health economics
Industrial organization
Information economics
International economics
Institutional economics
Labor economics
Law and economics
Managerial economics
Mathematical economics
Monetary economics
Public finance
Public economics
Real estate economics
Regional economics
Regional science
Resource economics
Rural economics
Socialist economics
Urban economics
Welfare economics
Methodologies or approaches
Behavioural economics
Classical economics
Computational economics
Econometrics
Evolutionary economics
Experimental economics
Praxeology (used by the Austrian School)
Social psychology
Types of economies
Economy – system of human activities related to the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption
of goods and services of a country or other area.
Economies, by scope
Anglo-Saxon economy
American School
Hunter-gatherer economy
Information economy
New industrial economy
Palace economy
Plantation economy
Token economy
Traditional economy
Transition economy
World economy
Economies, by regulation
Closed economy
Dual economy
Gift economy
Informal economy
Market economy
Mixed economy
Open economy
Participatory economy
Planned economy
Subsistence economy
Underground economy
Virtual economy
Economic elements
Economic activities
Business
Business cycle
Collective action
Commerce
Competition
Consumption
Distribution
Employment
Entrepreneurship
Export
Finance
Government spending
Import
Investment
Mergers and acquisitions
Pricing
Geographical pricing
Production
Trade
Balance of trade
Fair trade
Free trade
International trade
Safe trade
Tax, tariff and trade
Terms of trade
Trade bloc
Trade pact
Trader Ethic
Economic forces
Aggregate demand
Aggregate supply
Deflation
Economic activity (see above)
Economies of agglomeration
Economies of scale
Economies of scope
Incentive
Inflation
Hyperinflation
Invisible hand
Preference
Profit motive
Economic problems
Depression
Financial crisis
Hyperinflation
Poverty
Recession
List of recessions
Stagflation
Unemployment
Economic measures
Consumer price index
Economic indicator
Human Development Index
Measures of national income and output
Gross domestic product
Natural gross domestic product
Gross national product
National income
Net national income
Poverty level
Standard of living
UN Human Development Index
Value
Cost-of-production theory of value
Labor theory of value
Surplus value
Time value of money
Value added
Value of Earth
Value of life
Measuring well-being
Working time
Economic participants
Employer
Employee
Entrepreneur
Central bank
Reproductive labor
Economic politics
Antitrust
Cartel
Government-granted monopoly
Reaganomics
Taxation
Income tax
Land value tax
Sales tax
Tariff
Tax, tariff and trade
Value-added tax
Economic policy
Economic policy
Agricultural policy
Fiscal policy
Incomes policy
Price controls
Price ceiling
Rent control
Price floor
Minimum wage
Industrial policy
Infrastructure-based development
Investment policy
Monetary policy
Disinflation
Inflation targeting
Monetary hawk and dove
Monetary reform
Quantitative easing
Reflation
Policy mix – combination of a country's monetary policy and fiscal policy. These two
channels influence growth and employment, and are generally determined by the central
bank and the government (e.g., the United States Congress) respectively.
Stabilization policy
Tax policy
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Markets
Market
Types of markets
Black market
Commodity markets
Financial market
Bond market
Money market
Spot market
Secondary market
Third market
Fourth market
Stock market
Free market
Labor market
Mass market
Media market
Regulated market
Aspects of markets
Market failure
Market power
Market share
Market structure
Market system
Market transparency
Market trend
Market dominance
Market forms
Market form
Perfect competition, in which the market consists of a very large number of firms producing a
homogeneous product.
Monopolistic competition, also called competitive market, where there are a large number of
independent firms which have a very small proportion of the market share.
Monopoly, where there is only one provider of a product or service.
Monopsony, when there is only one buyer in a market.
Natural monopoly, a monopoly in which economies of scale cause efficiency to increase
continuously with the size of the firm.
Oligopoly, in which a market is dominated by a small number of firms which own more than
40% of the market share.
Oligopsony, a market dominated by many sellers and a few buyers.
Market-oriented activities
Market analysis
Marketing
Market segmentation
Market intelligence
Market research
Money
Money
Currency
Community currency
Dollar
Local currency
Petrocurrency
Reserve currency
Time-based currency
Yen
United States dollar
Monetary reform
Monetary system
Money supply
Resources
Resource management
Resource management
Factors of production
Factors of production
Land
Land
Natural resources
Labor
Division of labour
Capital
Capital
Capital asset
Capital intensity
Financial capital
Human capital
Individual capital
Natural capital
Social capital
Wealth
Economic theory
Consumer theory
Efficiency wage hypothesis
Efficient market hypothesis
Marginalism
Prospect theory
Public choice theory
Rational choice theory
Economic ideologies
Consumerism
Monetarism
Productivism
Utilitarianism
History of economics
Economic history
Economic history
Economic events
Economic history of the world
Economics in the Middle Ages: feudalism and manorialism
Economics of the Renaissance: mercantilism
Industrial Revolution
Economic history of World War I
Nixon shock
Economic history by region
Economic history of Africa
Economic history of Morocco
Economic history of Nigeria
Economic history of Somalia
Economic history of South Africa
Economic history of Zimbabwe
Economic history of the Arab world
Economic history of Asia
Economic history of Cambodia
Economic history of China
Economic history of China before 1912
Economic history of China (1912–1949)
Economic history of China (1949–present)
Economic history of the Republic of China
Economic history of India
Economic history of Indonesia
Economic history of Iran
Economic history of Japan
Economic history of Malaysia
Economic history of Pakistan
Economic history of Taiwan
Economic history of Turkey
Economic history of the Ottoman Empire
Economic history of Vietnam
Economic history of the Philippines
Economic history of Australia
Economic history of Europe
Economic history of France
Economic history of Germany
Economic history of the German reunification
Economic history of Greece and the Greek world
Economic history of Iceland
Economic history of Ireland
Economic history of Italy
Economic history of Portugal
Economic history of Scotland
Economic history of Spain
Economic history of Sweden
Economic history of Venice
Economic history of the Netherlands (1500–1815)
Economic history of the Republic of Ireland
Economic history of the Russian Federation
Economic history of the United Kingdom
Economic history of North America
Economic history of Canada
Economic history of Mexico
Economic history of the United States
Economic history of Central America
Economic history of Nicaragua
Economic history of South America
Economic history of Argentina
Economic history of Brazil
Economic history of Chile
Economic history of Colombia
Economic history of Ecuador
Economic history of Peru
Economic history by subject
History of banking
History of money
History of stock markets
Economics organizations
American Economic Association
American Institute for Economic Research
American Law and Economics Association
Association for Comparative Economic Studies
Association for Evolutionary Economics
Association for Social Economics
Canadian Economics Association
Centre for Economic Policy Research
China Center for Economic Research
Eastern Economic Association
Econometric Society
European Economic Association
International Association for Feminist Economics
International Economic Association
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association
National Association for Business Economics
National Bureau of Economic Research
Royal Economic Society
Southern Economic Association
Western Economic Association International
Economics publications
List of economics journals
List of important publications in economics
See also
Index of accounting articles
Index of economics articles
Index of international trade topics
JEL classification codes
List of business theorists
List of economic communities
List of economics films
List of economics awards
List of free trade agreements
Outline of business management
Outline of commercial law
Outline of community
Outline of finance
Outline of marketing
Outline of management
Outline of production
External links
History of Economic Thought and Critical Perspectives (NSSR) (https://web.archive.org/we
b/20110629230810/http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/het/)
The Joy of Economics (http://huwdixon.org/SurfingEconomics/chapter1.pdf), chapter 1 of
Surfing Economics (http://huwdixon.org/surfing-economics/index.html) by Huw Dixon