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Economics

Submitted by jk123 on April 28, 2006

Category: Business
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Economics (from the Greek ïßêïò [oikos], 'family, household, estate', and íïìïò [nomos], 'custom, law', hence "household management" and "management of the state") is a social science that typically studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Since the early part of the 20th century, economics has focused largely on measurable variables, and employed both theoretical models and empirical analysis[1]. Economic logic is increasingly applied to any problem that involves choice under scarcity or determining economic value (such as politics, religion, pyschology, history and dating). A professional working in economics or having an academic degree in the subject is an economist.

The subject is broadly divided into two main branches: microeconomics, which deals with individual agents, such as households and businesses, and macroeconomics, which considers the economy as a whole. An alternate division of the subject distinguishes positive economics, which tries objectively to predict and explain economic phenomena, from normative economics, which recommends one choice over another—such recommendations often involve subjective value judgments.

The mainstream economic paradigm is a combination of neoclassical economics and Keynesian macroeconomics. Crucial assumptions of this paradigm include the idea that resources are scarce while wants are unlimited, which is sometimes characterized as the economic problem, and an understanding that the value of most goods can be represented in terms of their open-market price. Various schools of heterodox economics, for instance socialist economics,green economics and associative economics, seek to explain economic phenomena using different basic assumptions, for example by emphasising that economics is primarily concerned with exchanges of values, which may either be scarce, as in physical goods (deriving from land)or may be unlimited, as in creative goods (or...

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