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Economists vs Economics - What's the difference?

economists | economics |

As nouns the difference between economists and economics

is that economists is plural of economist while economics is the study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.

economists

English

Noun

(head)
  • economics

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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 also

    Derived terms

    * -nomics