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Economics is an academic discipline and major within the social sciences. It is the study of the economy, goods, and services. The field is practiced by economists and includes subfields such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, and public economics. It is distinct from economy, economic activity, business studies, and the Austrian school.

Significant figures in the subject include Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes. Associated movements encompass classical economics, mercantilism, and Marxism. The history of the discipline covers economic history and the history of economic thought. It is described by sources such as the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition and the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary.

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Economics of children's environmental health.ReviewThe Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York · 2011Trasande LDOI: 10.1002/msj.20234
Economics of corneal cross-linking for keratoconus treatment.Journal of medical economics · 2025Rapuano CJ, Lindstrom RL, Donnenfeld E et al.DOI: 10.1080/13696998.2025.2564576
Economics of human performance and systems total ownership cost.ReviewWork (Reading, Mass.) · 2012Onkham W, Karwowski W, Ahram TZDOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0524-2781
Healthcare economics of bladder cancer: cost-enhancing and cost-reducing factors.ReviewCurrent opinion in urology · 2008Noyes K, Singer EA, Messing EMDOI: 10.1097/MOU.0b013e32830b8910
What understanding of economics do medical students have?GMS journal for medical education · 2019Spura A, Werwick K, Robra BP et al.DOI: 10.3205/zma001249
Economics of mastitis control.Journal of dairy science · 1990Gill R, Howard WH, Leslie KE et al.DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(90)79029-7
Economic analysis and pharmaceutical policy: a consideration of the economics of the use of desflurane.ReviewAnaesthesia · 1995Eger EI 2ndDOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1995.tb06190.x
[Social medicine and healthcare economics. The framework for future forms of healthcare].ReviewBundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2008Rebscher HDOI: 10.1007/s00103-008-0527-4

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Subclass of: social science
Part of: social science
Has part: natural resource economics
Movement: New Keynesian economics
Image: Economics circular flow cartoon.jpg

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Commons category: Economics
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/economics
topic's main category: Category:Economics
is the study of: service
topic has template: Template:Economics
different from: business studies
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Finance & Investment
history of topic: history of economic thought
significant person: Alfred Marshall
Stack Exchange site URL: economics.stackexchange.com
hashtag: Economics
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entry in abbreviations table: Eko
studied by: social science

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Economics () is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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