Outline of economics

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

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

Nature

Main article: Economics

• Business
• Economy
• Finance
• Trade

Subdisciplines

Attention economics Behavioural economics Bioeconomics Contract theory Development economics Econometrics Economic geography Economic history Economic sociology Education economics Energy economics Entrepreneurial economics Environmental economics Feminist economics Financial economics Green economics

Industrial organization Information economics International economics Institutional economics Labor economics Law and economics Managerial economics Mathematical economics Monetary economics Public finance Public economics Real estate economics Regional science Resource economics Socialist economics Welfare economics

Methodology

• Behavioural economics
• Computational economics
• Econometrics
• Evolutionary economics
• Experimental economics
• Praxeology - (used by the Austrian School)
• Social psychology

Multidisciplinary fields involving economics

• Neuroeconomics
• Political economy
• Socioeconomics
• Transport economics
• Constitutional economics

Types

Main articles: Economy and Economic system

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.

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Economies, by political & social ideological structure See also: Economic ideology 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 Hunter-gatherer economy Information economy New industrial economy Palace economy Plantation economy Token economy Traditional economy Transition economy World 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

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.

Economics by region

History

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
    • Wealth of Nations
• Schools of economic thought

General concepts

Agent Aggregate demand Aggregate supply Agricultural policy Antitrust Arbitrage Big Mac Index Big Push Model Black market Business cycle Cash crop Canadian and American economies compared Capital Capital asset Capital intensity Financial capital Human capital Individual capital Natural capital Social capital Capitalism Natural Capitalism Cartel Catch-up effect Central bank Chicago school Classical economics Collective action Collusion Commodity Commodity markets 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 Currency Community currency Dollar Local currency Petrocurrency Reserve currency Time-based currency Yen Decentralization Debt Deflation Depression Devaluation Disinflation Disposable income Distribution Economic 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 Ecosystem services 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 Federal Reserve Finance Financial crisis Financial instruments Fiscal neutrality Fiscal policy Free goods 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 Development Index Human development theory Hyperinflation Import Import substitution Incentive Income Income elasticity of demand Income velocity of money Induced demand Industrial Organization Industrial policy Industrial Revolution Industrialisation Inferior goods Inflation Input-output model Interest Investment Investment policy Invisible Hand Keynes, John Maynard Keynesian economics Knowledge-based economy Laissez-faire Land List of scholarly journals in economics Living wage Local purchasing Lorenz curve Macroeconomics Marginal Revolution Marginalism Market Labor market Market (economics) Market economy Market failure Market form Market power Market share Market system Market transparency 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 gross domestic product Neoclassical economics 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 Poverty Poverty level Preference Price Price discrimination Price elasticity of demand Price points

Production Production, costs, and pricing Production function Production theory basics Productivism Productivity Profit (economics) 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 Returns to scale Risk premium Saving Scarcity Seven-generation sustainability Slavery 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 Sustainable competitive advantage Sustainable development Sweatshop Tax Income tax Land value tax Sales tax Tariff Tax, tariff and trade Value-added tax Technostructure Time preference theory of interest The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith Trade Balance of trade Fair trade Free trade International trade Safe trade Tax, tariff and trade Terms of 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 Cost-of-production theory of value Labor theory of value Surplus value Time value of money Value added Value of Earth Value of life Virtuous circle and vicious circle Wage rate Wealth X-efficiency Yield Zero sum game Zone pricing

See also

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