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Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. By extension, economics also studies economic systems, human welfare, the creation and distribution of wealth, and the scarcity and alternative uses of resources.

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

Nature of economics

• Business
• Economy
• Finance
• Trade

Branches of economics

Subdisciplines of economics

Methodology 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.

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

v • d • e Economy of North America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Canada · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Grenada · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama1 · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Trinidad and Tobago1 · United States Dependencies and other territories Anguilla · Aruba1 · Bermuda · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Greenland · Guadeloupe · Martinique · Montserrat · Netherlands Antilles1 · Puerto Rico · Saint Barthélemy · Saint Martin · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · Turks and Caicos Islands · United States Virgin Islands 1 Territories also in or commonly considered to be part of South America.

v • d • e Economy of South America Sovereign states Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama1 · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago1 · Uruguay · Venezuela Dependencies and territories Aruba1 / Netherlands Antilles1 (Netherlands) · Falkland Islands / South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (United Kingdom) 2 · French Guiana (France) 1 Territories also in or commonly considered to be part of North America.  2 Territories also in or commonly considered to be part of Antarctica.

History of economics

• 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 economics concepts

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• Schools of Thought: Comparative Study