Economics Topics
Economics is the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics is also concerned with labor division, finance, taxation, supply, and demand. Economics is divided into macroeconomics, which deals with economic systems, and microeconomics, which focuses on one market. Other popular economics topics include econometrics, comparative economics, and game theory.
Economic theories have a long history, beginning in ancient times with Plato's Republic. Economic systems have changed and developed throughout history. In the middle ages, feudalism was the economic system. European expansion in the 16th-18th centuries led to mercantilism. The laissez-faire approach to economics occurred in reaction to mercantilism. The Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century and brought capitalism and socialism to the forefront. In the 1980s there was the development of supply-side economics and monetarism.
Important figures in the field of economics are John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, Alfred Marshall, Gunnar Myrdal, Adam Smith, Arthur Pigou, John Stuart Mill, and David Ricardo. Some important works in the field include Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) and Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936).
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