Outline of economics
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to economics:
Economics – analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. It aims to explain how economies work and how economic agents interact.
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[edit] Nature of economics
Economics can be described as all of the following:
- Academic discipline – body of knowledge given to - or received by - a disciple (student); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialise in.
- Field of science – widely-recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published. There are many sociology-related scientific journals.
- Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.
[edit] Essence of economics
[edit] Branches of economics
[edit] Subdisciplines of economics
- Attention economics
- Behavioural economics
- Bioeconomics
- Contract theory
- Development economics
- Econometrics
- Economic geography
- Economic history
- Economic sociology
- Education economics
- Energy economics
- Entrepreneurial economics
- Environmental economics
- Feminist economics
- Financial economics
- Green 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 science
- Resource economics
- Socialist economics
- Welfare economics
[edit] Methodologies or approaches
- Behavioural economics
- Computational economics
- Econometrics
- Evolutionary economics
- Experimental economics
- Praxeology - (used by the Austrian School)
- Social psychology
[edit] Multidisciplinary fields involving economics
- Constitutional economics
- Econophysics
- Neuroeconomics
- Political economy
- Socioeconomics
- Thermoeconomics
- Transport economics
[edit] Economics by region
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[edit] History of economics
Main article: History of economic thought
- Economics of classical antiquity
- Economics in the Middle Ages: Feudalism and Manorialism
- Economics of the Renaissance: Mercantilism
- Economics of the Age of Enlightenment
- British Enlightenment
- French Enlightenment: Physiocracy
- François Quesnay
- Tableau économique
- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
- Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth
- François Quesnay
- Economics of the Industrial Revolution: Classical economics, Political economy
- Schools of economic thought
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[edit] Types of economies
Main articles: Economy and Economic system
An economy is the system of human activities related to the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services of a country or other area.
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[edit] Economies, by political & social ideological structure
See also: Economic ideology
- Capitalist economy
- Communist economy
- Corporate economy
- Fascist economy
- Laissez-faire
- Mercantilism
- Natural economy
- Primitive communism
- Social market economy
- Socialist economy
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Market forms
Main article: 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.
[edit] General economic concepts
- Agent
- Aggregate demand
- Aggregate supply
- Agricultural policy
- Antitrust
- Arbitrage
- Big Mac Index
- Big Push Model
- Black market
- Business cycle
- Cash crop
- Canadian and American economies compared
- Capital
- Capitalism
- Cartel
- Catch-up effect
- Central bank
- Chicago school
- Classical economics
- Collective action
- Collusion
- Commodity
- Commodity markets
- Comparative advantage
- Competition
- Competitive advantage
- Complement good
- Complementarity
- Consumer
- Consumer and producer surplus
- Consumer price index
- Consumerism
- Consumer theory
- Consumption
- Cost
- Currency
- Decentralization
- Debt
- Deflation
- Depression
- Devaluation
- Disinflation
- Disposable income
- Distribution
- Economic
- Economies of agglomeration
- Economies of scale
- Economies of scope
- Economy
- Ecosystem services
- Efficiency wage hypothesis
- Efficient market hypothesis
- Elasticity
- Employment
- Entrepreneur
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental finance
- Euro
- Event study
- Experience economy
- Export
- Externality
- Factors of production
- Factor price equalization
- Federal Reserve
- Finance
- Financial crisis
- Financial instruments
- Fiscal neutrality
- Fiscal policy
- Free goods
- Full-reserve banking
- Game theory
- General equilibrium
- Globalization
- Gold Standard
- Goods
- Government-granted monopoly
- Gross domestic product
- Gross national product
- History of economic thought
- Home economics
- Human Development Index
- Human development theory
- Hyperinflation
- Import
- Import substitution
- Incentive
- Income
- Income elasticity of demand
- Income velocity of money
- Induced demand
- Industrial Organization
- Industrial policy
- Industrial Revolution
- Industrialisation
- Inferior goods
- Inflation
- Input-output model
- Interest
- Investment
- Investment policy
- Invisible Hand
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Keynesian economics
- Knowledge-based economy
- Laissez-faire
- Land
- List of scholarly journals in economics
- Living wage
- Local purchasing
- Lorenz curve
- Macroeconomics
- Marginal Revolution
- Marginalism
- Market
- Means of production
- Measures of national income
- Measuring well-being
- Medium of exchange
- Mental accounting
- Menu costs
- Mercantilism
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Minimum wage
- Missing market
- Model - economics
- Model - macroeconomics
- Modern portfolio theory
- Monetarism
- Monetary policy
- Monetary reform
- Money
- Money supply
- Monopoly profit
- Moral hazard
- Moral purchasing
- Multiplier (economics)
- National income
- Natural gross domestic product
- Neoclassical economics
- Neo-classical growth model
- Neo-Keynesian Economics
- Network effect
- Network externality
- New classical economics
- New Keynesian economics
- Normal goods
- Operations research
- Opportunity cost
- Output
- Parable of the broken window
- Pareto efficiency
- Participatory economics
- Poverty
- Poverty level
- Preference
- Price
- Price discrimination
- Price elasticity of demand
- Price points
- Production
- Production, costs, and pricing
- Production function
- Production theory basics
- Productivism
- Productivity
- Profit (economics)
- Profit maximization
- Prospect theory
- Public choice theory
- Public bad
- Public debt
- Public good
- Purchasing power parity
- Rate of return pricing
- Rational choice theory
- Rational expectations
- Rational pricing
- Reaganomics
- Real business cycle
- Real versus nominal in economics
- Recession
- Regression analysis
- Returns to scale
- Risk premium
- Saving
- Scarcity
- Seven-generation sustainability
- Slavery
- Social cost
- Social credit
- Social welfare
- Socialism
- Specialization
- Stagflation
- Standard of living
- Stock exchange
- Subsidy
- Subsistence agriculture
- Substitute good
- Sunk cost
- Supply and demand
- Supply-side economics
- Sustainable competitive advantage
- Sustainable development
- Sweatshop
- Tax
- Technostructure
- Time preference theory of interest
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
- Trade
- Transaction cost
- Triple bottom line
- Trust
- Utility
- Utility Maximization Problem
- Utilitarianism
- UN Human Development Index
- Uneconomic growth
- Unemployment
- United States dollar
- U.S. public debt
- Value
- Virtuous circle and vicious circle
- Wage rate
- Wealth
- X-efficiency
- Yield
- Zero sum game
- Zone pricing
[edit] See also
See also: Index of economics articles
- List of accounting topics
- List of community topics
- List of economics films
- List of economists
- List of finance topics
- List of international trade topics
- JEL classification codes
- List of management topics
- List of marketing topics
- List of philosophy of business topics
- List of production topics
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