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.
– body of knowledge given to, or received by, a disciple (student); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialize in.
Academic discipline
– widely recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer-reviewed research is published. There are many economics-related scientific journals.
Field of science
– field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.
Social science
Economics can be described as all of the following:
– branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole, rather than individual markets.
Macroeconomics
– branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of limited resources.
Microeconomics
In-between macroeconomics and microeconomics with a focus on the intermediate level of analysis.
Mesoeconomics
Economic ideology
Capitalist economy
Business
Business cycle
Collective action
Commerce
Competition
Consumption
Distribution
Employment
Entrepreneurship
Export
Finance
Government spending
Import
Investment
Mergers and acquisitions
Pricing
Geographical pricing
Production
Trade
Balance of trade
Consumer theory
Efficiency wage hypothesis
Efficient market hypothesis
Marginalism
Prospect theory
Public choice theory
Rational choice theory
Ricardian economics
Keynesian economics
Classical economics
Neo-Keynesian economics
Neoclassical economics
New classical economics
New Keynesian economics
Participatory economics
Home economics
Goods
Complement good
Capitalism
Modern portfolio theory
Game theory
Human development theory
Production theory basics
Time preference theory of interest
Agent
Arbitrage
Big Mac Index
Big push model
Cash crop
Canadian and American economies compared
Catch-up effect
Chicago school
Collusion
Commodity
Comparative advantage
Competitive advantage
complementarity
Consumer and producer surplus
Cost
Cost-benefit analysis
Debt
Devaluation
Disposable income
Economic
Economic data
Ecosystem services
Elasticity
Environmental finance
Euro
Event study
Experience economy
Externality
Factor price equalization
Federal Reserve
Financial instruments
Fiscal neutrality
Full-reserve banking
General equilibrium
Gold standard
Import substitution
Income
Income elasticity of demand
Income velocity of money
Induced demand
Industrial organization
Input-output model
Interest
Keynes, John Maynard
Knowledge-based economy
Laissez-faire
Land
Living wage
Local purchasing
Lorenz curve
Marginal Revolution
Means of production
Mental accounting
Menu costs
Missing market
Model - economics
Model - macroeconomics
Monopoly profit
Moral hazard
Moral purchasing
Multiplier (economics)
Neo-classical growth model
Network effect
Network externality
Operations research
Opportunity cost
Output
Parable of the broken window
Pareto efficiency
Price
Price discrimination
Price elasticity of demand
Price points
Outline of industrial organization
Production function
Productivity
Profit (economics)
Profit maximization
Public bad
Public debt
Purchasing power parity
Rahn curve
Rate of return pricing
Rational expectations
Rational pricing
Real business cycle
Real versus nominal in economics
Regression analysis
Returns to scale
Risk premium
Saving
Scarcity
Seven-generation sustainability
Slavery
Social cost
Social credit
Social welfare
Stock exchange
Subsidy
Subsistence agriculture
Sunk cost
Supply and demand
Supply-side economics
Sustainable competitive advantage
Sustainable development
Sweatshop
Technostructure
by Adam Smith