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economics

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Word definitions for economics in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "art of managing a household," perhaps from French économique (see economic ); also see -ics . Meaning "science of wealth" is from 1792.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management [syn: economic science , political economy ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context social sciences English) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics may also refer to: Economics (textbook) , a textbook by American economists Paul Samuelson and William Nordhaus Economics (Aristotle) ...

Usage examples of economics.

Court, in conformity with the aforementioned theories of economics and evolution, was in fact committed to the principle that freedom of contract is the general rule and that legislative authority to abridge the same could be justified only by exceptional circumstances.

From religious contrasts arise the thought-categories of believer and non-believer, from economics those of co-worker and competitor, from ideological those of agreer and disagreer.

At the level of the conditions of possibility pertaining to thought, Ricardo, by dissociating the creation of value from its representativity, made possible the articulation of economics upon history.

Alex, that she was doing Chub a favour, giving him the kind of education she thought would matter more than Economics and French.

The last great transglobal trade empire, run from the arcologies of Hong Kong, has collapsed along with capitalism, rendered obsolete by a bunch of superior deterministic resource allocation algorithms collectively known as Economics 2.

In the following decades, the changing economics of flying forced fewer flight attendants to oversee more passengers, and their job became increasingly important and difficult.

For Jools, at 21 a University College London graduate in economics and former National Bronze Medallist for rowing, this is the first time he has ever lived away from his south London home.

Math lessons can spill over into English, a practicum such as filling out an income tax form or balancing a checkbook can be worked into government classes, and economics can be made to include family planning.

He blamed the sciences for re-establishing the mirage of truth, and still more the pseudomorph subjects like anthropology and economics whose adepts substituted inapplicable statistics for the ineptness of their insights.

Panetta, Alice Rivlin, and our economics team believed we could now get to balance in seven years without the harsh cuts the Republicans were pushing.

French medicine is nothing if not responsive to the vagaries of economics and fashion, and it was not long after women of a certain age stopped coming to Salies that its water was discovered to contain just that combination of temperature, salts, and trace minerals that made it sovereign for the treatment of severely retarded children.

Luna City studying the economics of ice mining and the selenology of the Orientale Basin.

Bass refused, usually because Enron wanted accounting results divorced from economics.

They describe the basic antinomy that impels Joel to emigrate, discuss the economics of interstellar colonization, and sketch in some of his early adventures after he leaves.

Amidst this labyrinthine organization and all the multitude of offices and agencies of the Ministry of Economics and the Four-Year Plan and the Niagara of thousands of special decrees and laws even the most astute businessman was often lost, and special lawyers had to be employed to enable a firm to function.