Category:Economics

Economics is a 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.