Economics vs Ecology - What's the difference?
economics | ecology |
(social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.
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, title= The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart
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As an adjective economics
is .As a noun ecology is
the branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.economics
English
(wikipedia economics)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(-)Boundary problems, passage=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.}}
Synonyms
* dismal science * See alsoDerived terms
* -nomicsecology
English
(wikipedia ecology)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
- As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area . He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
citation, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}