Politics also deals with law, public works, protection, and emergency relief. Economics is, quite simply, the distribution of food, drink, goods, and services throughout the group. Since the advent of civilization, it has become a target of manipulation. Those who gain control of the economy are able to raise their standard of living by acquiring more of the distribution. Over the last 2500 years, the principal unit of exchange has been money, which was invented to make transactions easier than trading.
Money is a belief system.
It is a unit of the total distribution of the group. It has no intrinsic value other than the value granted by the group members. Even gold has no value, it is only scarce. Life is valuable. Money has become an important and highly complex major paradigm within Economics.