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Study of how individuals, businesses, and governments allocate resources to satisfy their needs and wants.

Introduction to Economics: This introductory course provides an overview of economics, including the concepts of supply and demand, market equilibrium, and economic models.
Microeconomics: This course focuses on the behavior of individuals and firms, including topics such as consumer behavior, production and costs, and market structure.
Macroeconomics: This course examines the economy as a whole, including topics such as GDP, inflation, unemployment, aggregate demand, and fiscal and monetary policy.
International Trade and Finance: This course examines the economic relationships between countries, including trade relationships, exchange rates, and international financial institutions.
Economic Development: This course focuses on the challenges faced by developing countries, such as poverty, inequality, and economic growth.
Public Economics: This course examines government policy and its impact on the economy, including taxation, public spending, and public goods.
Environmental and Resource Economics: This course focuses on the economics of natural resources and the environment, including issues related to sustainability, environmental regulation, and pollution control.
Econometrics: This course introduces statistical techniques for analyzing economic data, including regression analysis, time series analysis, and panel data analysis.
Labor Economics: This course examines the behavior of workers and employers in the labor market, including topics such as wage determination, labor supply and demand, and human capital.
Health Economics: This course focuses on the economics of healthcare, including topics such as healthcare financing, healthcare delivery systems, and health insurance.
Behavioral Economics: This course examines how psychological and social factors influence economic decisions and behavior.
Game Theory: This course introduces the concept of strategic interaction between individuals and firms, including topics such as the prisoner's dilemma, Nash equilibrium, and auctions.
Financial Economics: This course examines the behavior of financial markets and the pricing of financial assets, including topics such as stock markets, bond markets, and derivatives.
Urban and Regional Economics: This course examines economic issues specific to urban and regional areas, including urban development, transportation and infrastructure, and labor market dynamics in cities.
Agricultural Economics: This course focuses on the economics of agriculture and rural development, including topics such as farm management, agricultural policy, and international trade in agricultural products.
Energy Economics: This course examines the economics of energy production, distribution, and consumption, including topics such as energy markets, energy policy, and renewable energy sources.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: This course focuses on the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in economic development, including topics such as intellectual property, venture capital, and new product development.
International Economics: The study of how economic interactions between countries affect global trade, investment, and other economic factors.
Comparative Economic Systems: The study of how different economic systems (e.g., capitalism, socialism) influence economic outcomes in different regions.
Development Economics: The study of policies and strategies for promoting economic growth and development in less developed regions.
Environmental Economics: The study of how economic policies and practices impact the environment, and how environmental factors affect economic outcomes.
Urban and Regional Economics: The study of how economic activities and policies impact urban and regional development.
Behavioral Economics: The study of how psychological factors influence economic decision-making at the individual and group levels.
Agricultural Economics: The study of how economic policies and practices impact agricultural production, markets, and policies.
Industrial Organization: The study of the behavior and performance of firms and industries, as well as the role of competition in economic outcomes.
Health Economics: The study of how economic factors influence health outcomes and healthcare policies.
Labor Economics: The study of how economic policies affect labor markets, employment, and wages.
Public Economics: The study of how government policies and programs impact economic outcomes and social welfare.
Monetary Economics: The study of how monetary policy and banking systems influence economic outcomes.
Institutional Economics: The study of how social institutions (including legal, political, and cultural systems) impact economic behavior and outcomes.
- "Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services."
- "Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work."
- "Microeconomics analyzes what's viewed as basic elements in the economy, including individual agents and markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions."
- "Individual agents may include, for example, households, firms, buyers, and sellers."
- "Macroeconomics analyzes the economy as a system where production, consumption, saving, and investment interact, and factors affecting it."
- "Factors affecting it: employment of the resources of labour, capital, and land, currency inflation, economic growth, and public policies that have an impact on these elements."
- "Positive economics, describing 'what is', and normative economics, advocating 'what ought to be'."
- "Between economic theory and applied economics." - "Between rational and behavioural economics." - "Between mainstream economics and heterodox economics."
- "Economic analysis can be applied throughout society, including business, finance, cybersecurity, health care, engineering, and government."
- "Crime, education, the family, feminism, law, philosophy, politics, religion, social institutions, war, science, and the environment."
- "The production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services."
- "Microeconomics analyzes individual agents and markets, while macroeconomics analyzes the economy as a whole."
- "Rational economics."
- "Behavioural economics."
- "Public policies that have an impact on these elements."
- "Business, finance, cybersecurity, health care, engineering, and government."
- "Economic analysis can be applied throughout society."
- "Employment of the resources of labour, capital, and land, currency inflation, economic growth, and public policies that have an impact on these elements."
- The paragraph does not mention specific economic theories falling under mainstream economics.
- "War, science, and the environment."