Category:Economics: Difference between revisions

[[Category:Social sciences]]

[[Category:Mathematics]]

'''[[Economics]]''' is a [[Social sciences|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.

''This category intersects necessarily with [[:Category:Ethics]], as many economists accept that a theory of economics is also a theory of ethics, i.e. that economic values reflect to a large degree moral and social values. [[:Category:Religion]] also offers economic guidance, e.g. on [[usury]] and [[charity]].''

''In general these moral and ethical arguments are contained in other categories, and should be minimized here unless they are in context of an economic mechanism or [[market system]]. Idiosyncratic views of individual economists should also be confined to the their biographies or articles on specific works - of economics, not say [[sociology]]. A complete biography of [[Marx]] for instance would include both, and [[politics]] too, but his economic terms of art, e.g. [[means of production]], [[surplus value]] are included in the category, as they were and are widely employed by other economists.''