Economics vs Math - What's the difference?
economics | math |
(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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(uncountable, North America) Arithmetic]] [[calculation, calculations; .
(countable, North America) A math course.
As an adjective economics
is .As a noun math is
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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
* -nomicsmath
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) math, from (etyl) . See (l).Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
Contraction of mathematics.Alternative forms
* maths (qualifier)Noun
(mathematics)- If you do the math , you'll see that it’s not such a bargain.
- $170 a month? That doesn’t sound right. Let me check your math .
- They needed to take two more maths