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Outline of economics

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to economics:

Economics classes make extensive use of supply and demand graphs like this one to teach about markets. In this graph, S and D refer to supply and demand and P and Q refer to the price and quantity.

Economics – analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. It aims to explain how economies work and how economic agents interact.

Description of economics edit

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 specialize 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 economics-related scientific journals.
  • Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.

Branches of economics edit

  • Macroeconomics – branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole, rather than individual markets.
  • Microeconomics – branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of limited resources.
  • Mesoeconomics In-between macroeconomics and microeconomics with a focus on the intermediate level of analysis.

Subdisciplines of economics edit

Methodologies or approaches edit

Interdisciplinary fields involving economics edit

Types of economies edit

Main articles: Economy and Economic system

Economy – system of human activities related to the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services of a country or other area.

Economies, by political & social ideological structure edit

See also: Schools of economic thought

Economies, by scope edit

Economies, by regulation edit

Economic elements edit

Economic activities edit

Economic forces edit

Economic problems edit

Trends and influences edit

Economic measures edit

Economic participants edit

Economic politics edit

Economic policy edit

Economic policy

Infrastructure edit

Infrastructure

Markets edit

Market

Types of markets edit

Aspects of markets edit

Market forms edit

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.

Market-oriented activities edit

Money edit

Money

Resources edit

Resource management edit

Resource management

Factors of production edit

Factors of production

Land edit

Land

Labor edit
Capital edit

Capital

Economic theory edit

Economic ideologies edit

History of economics edit

History of economic thought edit

History of economic thought

Economic history edit

Economic history

General economic concepts edit

Economics organizations edit

Economics publications edit

Persons influential in the field of economics edit

Nobel Memorial Prize–winning economic historians edit

Other notable economic historians edit

See also edit

External links edit

 
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