List of basic economics topics
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Economics, is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of resources. By extension, economics also studies economies, the creation and distribution of wealth, the abundance and scarcity of resources, and human welfare. Basic topics in economics include:
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[edit] Nature of economics
- Main article: Economics
[edit] Branches of economics
[edit] Subdisciplines of economics
- Behavioural economics
- Bioeconomics
- Development economics
- Econometrics
- Economic geography
- Economic history
- Economic sociology
- Energy economics
- Entrepreneurial Economics
- Environmental economics
- Feminist economics
- Financial economics
- Green economics
- Industrial organization
- International economics
- Institutional economics
- Islamic economics
- Labor economics
- Law and Economics
- Managerial economics
- Mathematical economics
- Monetary economics
- Physical economics
- Public finance
- Public economics
- Platform economics
- Real estate economics
- Resource economics
- Socialist economics
- Welfare economics
[edit] Methodologies of economics
- [[Behavioural economics]]
- Computational economics
- Econometrics
- Evolutionary economics
- Experimental economics
- Social psychology
[edit] Multidisciplinary fields involving economics
[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] Economics by region
Algeria · Angola · Benin · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cameroon · Cape Verde · Central African Republic · Chad · Comoros · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Republic of the Congo · Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) · Djibouti · Egypt · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Gabon · The Gambia · Ghana · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Kenya · Lesotho · Liberia · Libya · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mauritania · Mauritius · Morocco · Mozambique · Namibia · Niger · Nigeria · Rwanda · São Tomé and Príncipe · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Somalia · South Africa · Sudan · Swaziland · Tanzania · Togo · Tunisia · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe
Dependencies and other territories
Ceuta · Mayotte · Melilla · Puntland · Réunion · St. Helena · Somaliland · Western Sahara (SADR)
Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Canada · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Grenada · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Trinidad and Tobago · United States
Dependencies and other territories
Anguilla · Aruba · Bermuda · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Greenland · Guadeloupe · Martinique · Montserrat · Navassa Island · Netherlands Antilles · Puerto Rico · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · Turks and Caicos Islands · U.S. Virgin Islands
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Afghanistan · Armenia · Azerbaijan1 · Bahrain · Bangladesh · Bhutan · Brunei · Cambodia · China (People's Republic of China (Hong Kong • Macau) · Republic of China (Taiwan)) · Cyprus · East Timor · Georgia1 · India · Indonesia · Iran · Iraq · Israel (see also Palestinian territories) · Japan · Jordan · Kazakhstan1 · Korea (North Korea · South Korea) · Kuwait · Kyrgyzstan · Laos · Lebanon · Malaysia · Maldives · Mongolia · Myanmar · Nepal · Oman · Pakistan · Philippines · Qatar · Russia1 · Saudi Arabia · Singapore · Sri Lanka · Syria · Tajikistan · Thailand · Turkey1 · Turkmenistan · United Arab Emirates · Uzbekistan · Vietnam · Yemen
1 Has some territory in Europe.
Albania · Andorra · Armenia2 · Austria · Azerbaijan1 · Belarus · Belgium · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Croatia · Cyprus2 · Czech Republic · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · France · Georgia1 · Germany · Greece · Hungary · Iceland · Ireland · Italy · Kazakhstan1 · Latvia · Liechtenstein · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Republic of Macedonia · Malta · Moldova · Monaco · Montenegro · Netherlands · Norway · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Russia1 · San Marino · Serbia · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden · Switzerland · Turkey1 · Ukraine · United Kingdom · Vatican City
Dependencies, autonomies and other territories
Abkhazia1 · Adjara2 · Åland · Akrotiri and Dhekelia · Crimea · Faroe Islands · Gibraltar · Guernsey · Isle of Man · Jersey · Kosovo · Nagorno-Karabakh2 · Nakhichevan2 · Transnistria · Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus2, 3
1 Has significant territory in Asia. 2 Entirely in West Asia, but considered European for cultural, political and historical reasons. 3 Only recognised by Turkey.
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Australia · Norfolk Island · Christmas Island · Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
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East Timor · Fiji · New Caledonia · Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands · Vanuatu |
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Guam · Kiribati · Marshall Islands · Northern Mariana Islands · Federated States of Micronesia · Nauru · Palau |
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American Samoa · Cook Islands · French Polynesia · New Zealand · Niue · Pitcairn · Samoa · Tokelau · Tonga · Tuvalu · Wallis and Futuna |
[edit] History of economics
- Main article: History of economics
[edit] General economics topics
- Agent
- Aggregate demand
- Aggregate supply
- Aggregation of individual demand to total, or market, demand
- Agricultural policy
- Antitrust
- Arbitrage
- Balance of trade
- Big Mac index
- Big Push Model
- Black market
- Business cycle
- Cash crop
- Canadian and American economies compared
- Capital
- Capital asset
- Capital intensity
- Capitalism
- Cartel
- Catch-up effect
- Central bank
- Chicago school
- Classical economics
- Coase's Penguin
- Collective action
- Collusion
- Commodity
- Commodity markets
- Community currency
- Comparative advantage
- Competition
- Competitive advantage
- Complement good
- Complementarity
- Consumer
- Consumer and producer surplus
- Consumer price index
- Consumerism
- Consumer theory
- Consumption
- Cost
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Cost-of-living index
- Cost-of-production theory of value
- Currency
- Decentralization
- Debt
- Deflation
- Depression
- Devaluation
- Disinflation
- Disposable income
- Distribution (economics)
- Dollar
- Economic data
- Economic growth
- Economic indicator
- Economic profits
- Economic modeling
- Economic reports
- Economic subjectivism
- Economic system
- Economies of agglomeration
- Economies of scale
- Economies of scope
- Economy
- Efficiency wage hypothesis
- Efficient markets theory
- Elasticity
- Employment
- Entrepreneur
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental finance
- Euro
- Event study
- Experience economy
- Export
- Externality
- Factors of production
- Factor price equalization
- Fair trade
- Federal Reserve
- Finance
- Financial capital
- Financial instruments
- Fiscal neutrality
- Fiscal policy
- Free goods
- Free trade
- 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 capital
- Human development theory
- Hyperinflation
- Import
- Import substitution
- Incentive
- Income
- Income elasticity of demand
- Income tax
- Income velocity of money
- Individual capital
- Induced demand
- Industrial policy
- Industrial Revolution
- Industrialisation
- Inferior goods
- Inflation
- Input-output model
- Interest
- International trade
- Investment
- Investment policy
- Invisible Hand
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Keynesian economics
- Knowledge-based economy
- Labor market
- Labor theory of value
- Laissez-faire
- Land
- Land value tax
- List of scholarly journals in economics
- Living wage
- Local currency
- Local purchasing
- Lorenz curve
- Macroeconomics
- Marginalism
- Market
- Market (economics)
- Market economy
- Market failure
- Market form
- Market power
- Market share
- Market system
- Market transparency
- Marxist economics
- 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 capital
- Natural Capitalism
- Natural gross domestic product
- Nature's services
- Neoclassical economics
- Neoclassical Revolution
- 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
- Petrocurrency
- Poverty
- Poverty level
- Preference
- Price discrimination
- Price elasticity of demand
- Price points
- Production, costs, and pricing
- Production function
- Production theory basics
- Productivism
- Productivity
- Profit
- 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
- Reserve currency
- Returns to scale
- Risk premium
- Safe trade
- Sales tax
- Saving
- Scarcity
- Seven-generation sustainability
- Slavery
- Social capital
- 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
- Surplus value
- Sustainable competitive advantage
- Sustainable development
- Sweatshop
- Tax
- Tax, tariff and trade
- Tariff
- Terms of trade
- Technostructure
- Time-based currency
- Time preference theory of interest
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
- Time value of money
- Trade
- Trade bloc
- Trade pact
- Trader Ethic
- 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
- Value added
- Value of Earth
- Value of life
- Value-added tax
- Virtuous circle and vicious circle
- Wage rate
- Wealth
- X-efficiency
- Yen
- Yield
- Zero sum game
- Zone pricing
[edit] Economics scholars
[edit] Leaders in economics
[edit] Economics lists
- Main article: List of economics topics
[edit] See also
- List of accounting topics
- List of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
- List of business law topics
- List of business theorists
- List of community topics
- List of companies
- List of corporate leaders
- List of finance topics
- List of human resource management topics
- List of information technology management topics
- List of international trade topics
- List of management topics
- List of marketing topics
- List of production topics
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