- "Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services."
The study of how goods and services are produced, distributed, and consumed.
Supply and demand: The relationship between the availability of goods or services and the desire for them.
Market equilibrium: The point at which supply and demand intersect, determining the market price and quantity of a product or service.
Opportunity cost: The cost of missing out on an alternative opportunity when making a decision.
Marginal analysis: The study of a small increment of a decision to determine whether it is worth pursuing.
Economic incentives: Rewards or penalties that affect the behavior of economic actors, such as individuals, firms, or governments.
Production and consumption: How goods and services are produced and consumed in an economy.
Macroeconomics: The study of the big picture of an economy, such as growth, inflation, and unemployment.
Microeconomics: The study of how individuals and firms make decisions in a market.
Trade and globalization: The exchange of goods and services between countries and how it affects economic growth and development.
Economic systems: The different ways in which economies are organized, including free-market, command, and mixed economies.
Public policy and regulation: The role of governments in regulating market activity, such as environmental policy or antitrust laws.
Money and banking: The study of how money, credit, and financial institutions work in an economy.
Behavioral economics: The study of how social, cognitive, and emotional factors affect economic decision-making.
International trade: The study of trade between countries, including tariffs, quotas, and trade agreements.
Game theory: The study of how people make choices in strategic situations, such as negotiations or competitions.
Economic development: The study of how countries can improve their economic conditions, including through foreign aid, investment, and policy reforms.
Economic history: The study of the development of economies over time, including the industrial revolution, the Great Depression, and the post-WWII economic boom.
Resource allocation: The study of how resources are allocated in an economy, including why some goods and services are scarce while others are abundant.
Income distribution: The study of how income is distributed in a society, including the causes and consequences of income inequality.
Labor markets: The study of how workers and firms interact, including issues like unemployment, discrimination, and minimum wage laws.
Microeconomics: Studies the behavior of individual firms and households and how they interact in specific markets.
Macroeconomics: Analyzes the overall performance of an economy, including issues such as inflation, unemployment, and economic growth.
International Economics: Focuses on the study of international trade and finance, including exchange rates, trade policies, and globalization.
Public Economics: Examines the role of government in the economy, including issues such as taxation, public goods, and welfare policies.
Environmental Economics: Deals with the study of the economic impact of environmental issues, including climate change, pollution, and resource depletion.
Agricultural Economics: Deals with the study of food production and distribution systems, prices, and policies.
Development Economics: Analyzes the economic development of countries and how they can effectively use their resources to achieve economic growth and development.
Financial Economics: Focuses on the study of financial markets and instruments, including the stock market, bonds, and securities.
Health Economics: Examines the economic factors that affect public health policies and healthcare systems, including access to healthcare and the cost of medical treatment.
Labor Economics: Studies the labor market, including issues such as wages, employment, and productivity.
- "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."