Economics is a social science that studies human behavior and welfare as a relationship between ends socially required and scarce means which have alternative uses (Lionel Robbins, 1935). (This is not the only definition of economics; instead it is the dominant one.) Many of the arguments and techniques of modern economics involve mathematics, ranging from simple school-level mathematics to highly advanced mathematical techniques.

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List of economics topics A Absorptive capacity Abundance Accelerator effect Adam Smith rule Adaptive expectations Agricultural economics Agricultural surplus Allocation Allocative efficiency Anarcho-capitalism Arbitrage Arc elasticity Arms race Artificial scarcity Austerity Autarky B Backflows Backwardness Balassa-Samuelson effect Bandwagon effect Barter Basis point Behavioral finance Bertrand competition Bertrand paradox (economics) Bimetallism Box-Cox transformation Boycott Bretton Woods system Built-in inflation Bulge bracket C Carbon trading Cardinal utility Cash Catallactics Catch-up Effect Ceteris paribus Circular flow of income Class conflict Clintonomics Co-operation Cobb-Douglas Commodity pool Competition Consumer debt Contingent cooperator Corporate nationalism Cournot competition Creative destruction Cross elasticity of demand D Death spiral financing Deficit spending Depression (economics) Devaluation Diminishing returns

D cont. Dirigisme Discount function Discussion and clarification of PPP Disinflation Dismal Science Dispersed knowledge Disruptive technology Distribution of wealth Division of labour Dual coincidence of wants Dutch disease E Economic choice Economic data Economic equilibrium Economic interventionism Economic militarism Economic nationalism Economic power Economic profit Economic puzzle Economic reports Economic sanction Economic sociology Economic surplus Economics Economies of scope Econophysics Edgeworth paradox Elasticity (economics) Electricity liberalization Energy intensity Entrepreneurship Environmental economics Ex ante vs. ex post F Factor price equalization Fiat money Financial economics Fisher equation Framing (economics) Friedman rule Fungibility G Get-rich-quick scheme Gift economy Global digital divide Gold standard Greed and fear Group booking Growth accounting H Haig-Simons equation Hard money (policy) Hedonic regression Herfindahl index Hire purchase Hold-up problem Homo economicus Horizontal integration Horizontal monopoly

H cont. Household consumption expenditures I Immiserizing growth Impossible trinity Imputation (economics) Incentive Income Independent contractor Industrial Sociology Industrial organization Informal economy Information economics Information economy Input-output economics Institutional economics International Association of Financial Engineers Intertemporal choice Intertemporal consumption Intertemporal equilibrium Investment policy Invisible Hand Isoquant J Journal of Financial Economics K Kaldor-Hicks efficiency Keynes effect Kondratiev wave Kuznets curve L Labor intensity Labor theory of value Labour (economics) Laissez-faire capitalism Lane’s Stochastics Legal Origins Theory Legal tender Lerner Index Liberalization Limit price Local currency Local multiplier effect Long run Lucas critique Lump of labour Lump of labour fallacy M Maldevelopment Marginal concepts Marginalism Market economy Market form Maximum wage Means of persuasion Mental accounting Microeconomics Military-industrial complex Minimum wage Mixed strategy Model (economics) Monetary union Money