economics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: From economic (noun) (obsolete) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, and regular plural forms of nouns). Economic is derived from Middle English economike, iconomique (“household management”), and then:
* from Middle French iconomique, oeconomique, and Old French iconomike (“(noun) household management; person in charge of household management; (adjective) relating to household management; relating to domestic or family matters; relating to management of a state; reducing costs or expenses, economical”) (modern French économique); and
* from their etymon Latin oeconomicus (“(noun) household manager, housekeeper, steward; (adjective) relating to orderly arrangement of written material”) (whence Late Latin economicus (“relating to (management of) a household”)), and economica (“household management”), both from Ancient Greek οἰκονομῐκός (oikonomĭkós, “skilled in household management; frugal, thrifty, economical”) (whence Koine Greek οἰκονομῐκός (oikonomĭkós, “relating to orderly arrangement of written material”));
from οἰκονόμος (oikonómos, “master of a house; household manager, steward; administrator, manager”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives). Οἰκονόμος (Oikonómos) is derived from οἶκος (oîkos, “dwelling place, house; estate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“(verb) to enter in; to settle; (noun) settlement”)) + νόμος (nómos, “law, ordinance”) (from νέμω (némō, “to distribute; to possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute; to give; to take”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming o-grade action nouns from verbs)). By surface analysis, econom(y) + -ics (suffix forming nouns denoting fields of knowledge or practice).
Base: economic
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: œconomics
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Now chiefly home economics: the art or science of household management, especially relating to the appropriate organization of resources; housekeeping.
pos: noun
tags: dated
plural
singular
examples: Thus Logick, Phyſicks, Metaphyſicks, are the burden of Volumes, and the dayly entertainment of the Diſputing Schools: vvhile the more profitable doctrines of the Heavens, Meteors, Minerals, Animals; as alſo the more practical ones of Politicks, and Oeconomicks, are ſcarce ſo much as glanc'd at.
[H]e now furthermore contrived the scheme of a little Club, where monthly over a frugal dinner some reunion might take place; […] The scheme was approved by the persons concerned: I have a copy of the Original Regulations, probably drawn up by Sterling, a very solid lucid piece of economics; […]
gloss: Now chiefly home economics: the art or science of household management, especially relating to the appropriate organization of resources; housekeeping.
pos: noun
tags: dated
plural
singular
examples: Being now turned of sixteen, and the family economics getting yearly more propitious and flourishing, he, as his brother had already been, was sent to Glasgow University, in which city their Mother had connexions.
gloss: The study of resource and wealth allocation, consumption, and distribution, of capital and investment, and of management of the factors of production.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
plural
singular
examples: Mary studied economics for five years before going into banking.
The Annals of the French Republic, from the Eſtabliſhment of the Conſtitution of the third Year, 6 vols. 8vo.— […] In the fourth [volume] are military pieces; in the fifth and ſixth, various literary intelligence, and memoranda reſpecting commerce, œconomics, &c. may be found.
[L]et him accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural history, and economics; the more he has, the less is he willing to spare any one.
But it is characteristic of economics that valuable and interesting work may be performed and steady progress made for many years, and yet that the results will be almost useless for practical purposes until a certain degree of exactness and perfection has been reached. Half-baked theory is not of much value in practice, though it may be half-way towards final perfection.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists' most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
Mainstream economics is increasingly sympathetic. In late 2012 the International Monetary Fund updated its institutional view on capital controls, noting that more financially open economies did worse in the crisis of 2007-09.
gloss: The study of resource and wealth allocation, consumption, and distribution, of capital and investment, and of management of the factors of production.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
plural
singular
examples: rural economics
[T]he extraordinary thing is that the "Gibson Paradox"—as we may fairly call it—is one of the most completely established empirical facts within the whole field of quantitative economics, though theoretical economists have mostly ignored it.
gloss: The study of resource and wealth allocation, consumption, and distribution, of capital and investment, and of management of the factors of production.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
plural
singular
examples: [T]he oppression has gone far farther than into the economics of Ireland; inwards to her very heart and soul. The Irish National character is degraded, disordered; till this recover itself, nothing is yet recovered.
He assured his father that it would never be well for England until this order of the Peasantry was restored to its pristine condition; […] to its condition in all those moral attributes, which make a recognised rank in a nation; and which in a great degree, are independent of economics; manners, customs, ceremonies, rights, and privileges.
gloss: The study of resource and wealth allocation, consumption, and distribution, of capital and investment, and of management of the factors of production.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
plural
singular
examples: The economics of running a restaurant are not easy to get right.
Synonyms: economics
dismal science
political economy
Related words: economy
capital
consumption
currency
demand
inflation
interest
investment
loss
market
money
price
production
profit
resource
supply
yield
:Category:Economics
Derived words: agroeconomics
applied economics
behavioral economics
bioeconomics
Buddhist economics
burgernomics
Bushonomics
business economics
Carternomics
clinicoeconomics
Clintonomics
counter-economics
countereconomics
demand-side economics
economese
economics of scale
Enronomics
exergoeconomics
financial economics
Fordonomics
freeconomics
genoeconomics
geoeconomics
Hitlernomics
home economics
hydroeconomics
Johnsonomics
Kennedynomics
Lincolnomics
macroeconomics
mathematical economics
mesoeconomics
microeconomics
nanoeconomics
neuroeconomics
Nixonomics
-nomics
normative economics
Obamanomics
pakodanomics
palaeoeconomics
participatory economics
pharmacoeconomics
picoeconomics
positive economics
pulchronomics
Reaganomics
regional economics
socioeconomics
supply-side economics
thermoeconomics
treeconomics
trickle-down economics
Trumanomics
voodoo economics
welfare economics
wikinomics
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: talous
lang: Afrikaans
word: ekonomie
lang: Albanian
word: ekonomi
lang: Arabic
word: عِلْم الاِقْتِصَاد
roman: ʕilm al-iqtiṣād
lang: Arabic
word: اِقْتِصَاد
roman: iqtiṣād
lang: Aragonese
word: economía
lang: Armenian
word: տնտեսագիտություն
roman: tntesagitutʻyun
lang: Asturian
word: economía
lang: Azerbaijani
word: iqtisad
lang: Azerbaijani
word: iqtisadiyyat
lang: Bambara
word: nafasorosira
lang: Banjarese
word: ikunumi
lang: Basque
word: ekonomia
lang: Belarusian
word: экано́міка
roman: ekanómika
lang: Bengali
word: অর্থনীতি
roman: orthoniti
lang: Breton
word: armerzh
lang: Bulgarian
word: иконо́мика
roman: ikonómika
lang: Burmese
word: ဘောဂဗေဒ
roman: bhau:ga.beda.
lang: Catalan
word: economia
lang: Cebuano
word: ekonomiks
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 經濟學 /经济学
roman: ging¹ zai³ hok⁶
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 經濟學 /经济学
roman: kîn-chi-ho̍k
lang: Chinese
word: 經濟學 /经济学
roman: keng-chè-ha̍k
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 經濟學 /经济学
roman: jīngjìxué
lang: Chuvash
word: экономика
roman: ek̬onomik̬a
lang: Cornish
word: erbysieth
lang: Czech
word: ekonomie
lang: Danish
word: økonomi
lang: Dutch
word: economie
lang: Esperanto
word: ekonomiko
lang: Estonian
word: majandusteadus
lang: Faroese
word: búskapur
lang: Finnish
word: ekonomia
lang: Finnish
word: kansantaloustiede
lang: Finnish
word: taloustiede
lang: French
word: économie
lang: West-Frisian
word: ekonomy
lang: Friulian
word: economie
lang: Galician
word: economía
lang: Georgian
word: ეკონომიკა
roman: eḳonomiḳa
lang: German
word: Ökonomie
lang: German
word: Wirtschaftswissenschaft
lang: Greek
word: οικονομικά
roman: oikonomiká
lang: Gujarati
word: અર્થશાસ્ત્ર
roman: arthaśāstra
lang: Hebrew
word: כַּלְכָּלָה
roman: kalkalá
lang: Hiligaynon
word: piniliay
lang: Hindi
word: अर्थनीति
roman: arthanīti
lang: Hindi
word: अर्थशास्त्र
roman: arthaśāstra
lang: Hungarian
word: közgazdaságtan
lang: Icelandic
word: hagfræði
lang: Ido
word: ekonomiko
lang: Indonesian
word: ekonomi
lang: Indonesian
word: ilmu ekonomi
lang: Interlingua
word: economia
lang: Irish
word: eacnamaíocht
lang: Italian
word: economia
lang: Japanese
word: 経済学
roman: keizaigaku
lang: Javanese
word: ekonomi
lang: Kannada
word: ಅರ್ಥಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ
roman: arthaśāstra
lang: Kashubian
word: ekònomijô
lang: Kazakh
word: экономика
roman: ékonomika
lang: Kazakh
word: үнемиет
roman: ünemiet
lang: Kazakh
word: ықтисат
roman: yqtisat
lang: Khmer
word: សេដ្ឋកិច្ចវិទ្យា
roman: seedthɑɑkeccɑɑvityiə
lang: Khmer
word: សេដ្ឋសាស្ត្រ
roman: seetthaʼsaah
lang: Korean
word: 경제학
roman: gyeongjehak
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ئابووری
roman: abûrî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: aborî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: aborînasî
lang: Kyrgyz
word: экономика
roman: ekonomika
lang: Ladino
word: ekonomiya
lang: Lao
word: ເສດຖະສາດ
roman: sēt tha sāt
lang: Latin
word: oeconomia
lang: Latvian
word: ekonomika
lang: Limburgish
word: Economie
lang: Lithuanian
word: ekonomika
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Economie
lang: Macedonian
word: економија
roman: ekonomija
lang: Malagasy
word: toe-karena
lang: Malay
word: ekonomi
lang: Malayalam
word: സാമ്പത്തികശാസ്ത്രം
roman: sāmpattikaśāstraṁ
lang: Māori
word: ahupūtea
lang: Māori
word: matai ōhanga
lang: Marathi
word: अर्थशास्त्र
roman: arthaśāstra
lang: Mongolian
word: эдийн засаг
roman: ediin zasag
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠡᠳ᠋ ᠦᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ
roman: ed-ün ǰasag
lang: Navajo
word: naʼiiniʼ naalkaah
lang: Nepali
word: अर्थशास्त्र
roman: arthasāstra
lang: Norman
word: êcononmie
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: økonomi
lang: Occitan
word: economia
lang: Pashto
word: اقتصاد
roman: eqtesād
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اِقْتِصاد
roman: eġtesâd
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اِقْتِصادِیَّات
roman: eġtesâdiyyât
lang: Polish
word: ekonomia
lang: Polish
word: ekonomika
lang: Portuguese
word: economia
lang: Romanian
word: economie
lang: Romanian
word: știința economiei
lang: Russian
word: эконо́мика
roman: ekonómika
lang: Sanskrit
word: अर्थशास्त्र
roman: arthaśāstra
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: еконо̀мија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ekonòmija
lang: Sicilian
word: econumìa
lang: Slovak
word: ekonómia
lang: Slovene
word: ekonomija
lang: Somali
word: dhaqaale
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: ekonomija
lang: Spanish
word: economía
lang: Swahili
word: uchumi
lang: Swedish
word: ekonomi
lang: Tagalog
word: ekonomika
lang: Tagalog
word: agimatan
lang: Tajik
word: иқтисод
roman: iqtisod
lang: Tajik
word: иқтисодиёт
roman: iqtisodiyot
lang: Tamil
word: பொருளியல்
roman: poruḷiyal
lang: Tatar
word: икътисад
roman: iqtisad
lang: Telugu
word: ఆర్థిక శాస్త్రము
roman: ārthika śāstramu
lang: Thai
word: เศรษฐศาสตร์
roman: sèet-tà-sàat
lang: Turkish
word: ekonomi
lang: Turkish
word: iktisat
lang: Turkmen
word: ykdysadyýet
lang: Ukrainian
word: еконо́міка
roman: ekonómika
lang: Urdu
word: اِقْتِصادِیات
roman: iqtisādiyāt
lang: Urdu
word: مَعاشِیات
roman: ma'āśiyāt
lang: Uyghur
word: ئىقتىسادشۇناسلىق
roman: iqtisadshunasliq
lang: Uzbek
word: iqtisod
lang: Uzbek
word: iqtisodiyot
lang: Vietnamese
word: kinh tế học
lang: Volapük
word: konömav
lang: Welsh
word: economeg
lang: Wolof
word: koom-koom
lang: Yiddish
word: עקאָנאָמיק
roman: ekonomik