economics, economic science, political economy

the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management

• econometrics — the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data
• finance — the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets
• macroeconomics — the branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy
• microeconomics — the branch of economics that studies the economy of consumers or households or individual firms
• supply-side economics — the school of economic theory that stresses the costs of production as a means of stimulating the economy; advocates policies that raise capital and labor output by increasing the incentive to produce

• social science — the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society

• economic theory — (economics) a theory of commercial activities (such as the production and consumption of goods)
• game theory, theory of games — a theory of competition stated in terms of gains and losses among opposing players