economics
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See also: econòmics
Alternative forms
- œconomics (archaic)
Etymology
From economy + -ics, from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “the management of a household”).
Pronunciation
Noun
economics (uncountable)
- (social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.
- Synonyms: dismal science; see also Thesaurus:economics
- Mary studied economics for 5 years before going into banking.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
Holonyms
Derived terms
- agroeconomics
- applied economics
- behavioral economics
- bioeconomics
- Buddhist economics
- burgernomics
- Bushonomics
- business economics
- Carternomics
- clinicoeconomics
- Clintonomics
- countereconomics
- counter-economics
- demand-side economics
- economese
- Enronomics
- financial economics
- Fordonomics
- freeconomics
- genoeconomics
- geoeconomics
- Hitlernomics
- home economics
- hydroeconomics
- Johnsonomics
- Kennedynomics
- Lincolnomics
- macroeconomics
- mathematical economics
- mesoeconomics
- microeconomics
- nanoeconomics
- neuroeconomics
- Nixonomics
- -nomics
- normative economics
- Obamanomics
- pakodanomics
- palaeoeconomics
- participatory economics
- pharmacoeconomics
- picoeconomics
- positive economics
- Reaganomics
- regional economics
- socioeconomics
- supply-side economics
- thermoeconomics
- treeconomics
- trickle-down economics
- Trumanomics
- voodoo economics
- wikinomics
Related terms
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