economics

IPA: ɛkʌnˈɑmɪks

(social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.

Examples of "economics" in Sentences

Mathematical rigor in economics is not a reliable predictor of human action.
Lay received both his bachelor and master degrees in economics from the University of Missouri.
George Borjas, the most academically reputable critic of immigration in economics, is now blogging.
He has a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
One of the most interesting questions in economics is why we are so wealthy today compared to our ancestors of 200 years ago and our contemporaries in underdeveloped countries.
From this episode to the last, the instruction in economics is generous and most of the time enthralling — a feeling not often connected with economics instruction, but there it is.
Ron Chusid: vulcanhamm er, "you obviously don't understand basic economics but you were a supporter of Austrian economics& #8221; Spoken like a true religious zealot when their beliefs are ...
Defining such a range in economics is difficult, because many of the systems (read: institutions, however defined) that are of interest to economists have their own unique parameters that may not be shared with other systems.
More to the point of the post, behavioral economics is not more than efforts to incorporate into economic analysis some of the insights of psychology (which are extremely well established) and criticisms from philosophy of economics from the last 30 years.