Economics vs Ergonomics - What's the difference?
economics | ergonomics |
(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 science of the design of equipment, especially so as to reduce operator fatigue, discomfort and injury.
As nouns the difference between economics and ergonomics
is that economics is the study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production while ergonomics is the science of the design of equipment, especially so as to reduce operator fatigue, discomfort and injury.economics
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(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
* -nomicsergonomics
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Noun
(ergonomics)- Ergonomics is increasingly important in office-product design.
- Ergonomics are complications to be avoided.