Topic outline of economics

:"For a more comprehensive list, see the List of economics topics." 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.

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

Nature of economics

: "Main article: Economics"

* Business
* Economy
* Finance
* Trade

Branches of economics

* Macroeconomics
* Microeconomics

ubdisciplines of economics

* Attention economics
* Behavioural economics
* Bioeconomics
* Contract theory
* Development economics
* Econometrics
* Economic geography
* Economic history
* Economic sociology
* Energy economics
* Entrepreneurial Economics
* Environmental economics
* Feminist economics
* Financial economics
* Green economics
* Industrial organization
* Information economics
* International economics
* Institutional economics
* knowledge economics
* Labor economics
* Law and Economics
* Managerial economics
* Mathematical economics
* Monetary economics
* Public finance
* Public economics
* Platform economics
* Real estate economics
* Regional Science
* Resource economics
* Socialist economics
* Welfare economics

Methodologies of economics

* Behavioural economics
* Computational economics
* Econometrics
* Evolutionary economics
* Experimental economics
* Social psychology

Multidisciplinary fields involving economics

* Neuroeconomics
* Political economy
* Socioeconomics
* Transport economics

Types of economies

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

= Economies, by ideological structure =

* Capitalist economy
* Communist economy
* Corporate economy
* Fascist economy
* Laissez-faire
* Mercantilism
* Natural economy
* Primitive communism
* Social market economy
* Socialist economy

Economies, by scope

* Anglo-Saxon economy
* American School
* Global economy
* Hunter-gatherer economy
* Information economy
* New industrial economy
* Palace economy
* Plantation economy
* Token economy
* Traditional economy
* Transition economy

Economies, by regulation

* Closed economy
* Dual economy
* Gift economy
* Informal economy
* Market economy
* Mixed economy
* Open economy
* Participatory economy
* Planned economy
* Subsistence economy
* Underground economy
* Virtual economy

Market forms

* 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.

Economics by region

History of economics

: "Main article: History of economic thought"

* Economics of classical antiquity
** Aristotle
*** "Nicomachean Ethics"
* Economics in the Middle Ages: Feudalism and Manorialism
* Economics of the Renaissance: Mercantilism
* Economics of the Age of Enlightenment
** British Enlightenment
*** John Locke
*** Dudley North
*** David Hume
** French Enlightenment: Physiocracy
*** François Quesnay
**** "Tableau économique"
*** Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
**** "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth"
* Economics of the Industrial Revolution: Classical economics, Political economy
** Adam Smith (the father of economics)
*** "Wealth of Nations"

General economics topics

* Agent
* Aggregate demand
* Aggregate supply
* 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
* 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 market hypothesis
* 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
** List of recessions
* 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

Economics scholars

* List of economists

Economics lists

: "Main article: List of economics topics"
* List of economies by country
* List of economists

ee 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 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

External links

General information

*dmoz|Science/Social_Sciences/Economics/|Economics
* [http://rfe.org/ Resources For Economists] : Official resource guide of the American Economic Association
* [http://repec.org/ Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)] : huge database of preprints and other research
* [http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/journals.htm Economic journals on the web]
* [http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/economics/ Intute: Economics] : Searchable human catalogue of the best links for teaching and research in Economics
* [http://www.waset.org/ijhss/ International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences]
* [http://www.waset.org/ijss/ International Journal of Social Sciences]
* [http://www.economiasocial.com.ve/ Blog Economic Social (Spanish Venezuela)

Institutions and organizations

* [http://edirc.repec.org/ Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World]
* [http://www.oecd.org/statistics/ Organization For Co-operation and Economic Development (OECD) Statistics]
* [http://unstats.un.org/unsd United Nations Statistics Division]
* [http://www.worldbank.org/data/ World Bank Data]
* [http://www.wto.org World Trade Organization]
* [http://www.cepr.net/ Center for Economic and Policy Research (USA)]

tudy resources

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* [http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2216 MERLOT Learning Materials: Economics] : US-based database of learning materials
* [http://unieco.info/ The United economic encyclopedia]
* [http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/links/othertl.htm Online Learning and Teaching Materials for Economics] : The Economics Network (UK)'s database of text, slides, glossaries and other resources
* [http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Economics/index.htm MIT OpenCourseWare: Economics] : Archive of study materials from MIT courses
* [http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/newbooks.htm A guide to several online economics textbooks]
* [http://www.econlib.org/ The Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib)] : Economics Books, Articles, Blog (EconLog), Podcasts (EconTalk)
* [http://homepage.newschool.edu/het/thought.htm Schools of Thought] : Compare various economic schools of thought on particular issues
* [http://economics.about.com/ Economics at About.com]
* [http://eh.net/atp/ Ask The Professor] section of EH. Net Economic History Services
* [http://www.econguru.com/introduction_to_economics/ Introduction to Economics] : Short Creative commons-licensed introduction to basic economics