econ

Supply-demand study, briefly

Econ is an informal clipping of economics, used mainly in academic contexts: I'm taking econ this semester, econ major, econ department.

The abbreviation appears in course catalogs, casual conversation among students, and increasingly in journalism: The econ data looks promising.

finance

capital

Wealth used for investment

markets · securities · stocks · bonds · portfolio · banking · credit · inflation · GDP · fiscal

policy

regulation

Official rules governing conduct

trade · stimulus · austerity · redistribution · unemployment · welfare · budget · spending · deregulation · sanctions

theory

equilibrium

State of balance

monopoly · oligopoly · neoclassical · Keynesian · monetarist · behavioral · incentives · scarcity · externalities · efficiency

academic

textbook

Academic subject manual

professor · coursework · midterm · finals · prerequisites · PhD · research · thesis · dissertation · seminar

Categories
Opposites
academic discipline

econhumanities

Study of culture

philosophy · literature · art history · poetry · classics

quantitative vs. qualitative methodology

econanthropology

Study of human cultures

sociology · ethnography · literary criticism · hermeneutics · phenomenology

market-oriented vs. non-market values

econart

Human creative expression

spirituality · ethics · aesthetics · love · nature

Phrases
Family

economy, economic, economical, economics, economize, economist, economizing, economists, uneconomical

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G