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Economics includes studies of economic systems, companies and industries and economic activities.

Institutions

Systems

Studies of economic systems include such matters as firms, economic networks, types of economic systems, and economic system behavior.

Industries

Industries are groups of organizations, classified by the type of goods or services they provide. These include Agriculture, Extraction and manufacture, Building construction, Social and medical services, transportation, communication, and commercial and financial services.

Activity

Economic activity includes production, distribution or trade and exchange, and consumption from both practical and theoretical perspectives.


History As with institutions in general, economic systems, companies, and economic activities can be followed through history. They are somewhat difficult to trace in prehistory, but information in antiquity and through classical and medieval times is more abundant. Their modern history can be examined more thoroughly and their future can also be examined.
Sociology Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be applied to economic systems, industries, and economic activities. Other Institutions Religion Particular traditions can be connected. Abrahamic religion including Islam has not been carefully examined. Christianity including Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Old Christianity, and Mormonism all have economic influences. Islam can be connected. Judaism can be connected. Secularism can be connected. Asiatic religion including Zoroastrianism, Manicheanism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism also has an influence on economics. Pagan religion including Asian pagan, European pagan, African pagan, American Indian pagan, and Neopagan religion can be connected. Religious organization such as unstructured, fragmented, and unified religions, practices, and beliefs seems to be somwhat weakly connected to economics. Government Particular governments including local governments, national governments such as Monarchies, dictatorships, and democratic governments, and international governments including imperial, colonial, and modern compacts are closely connected to economics. Reigional associations, special purpose associations, and temporary alliances can be connected. World government such as the League of Nations and the United Nations can be connected. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations can be connected. Government structure such as political parties, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, government heads, and government forms have a great deal to do with economics. Law including tribal law, asiatic law, Western law, and International law is connected to economics. Education Education can be connected to economics. Particular schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be considered. Higher education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be considered. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be considered. Teaching and Research can be considered. Families Particular families, and kinship, parenting, and marriage can be connected. Culture Behavioral culture Cultural events such as meeting, holidays, miscellaneous events, and disasters are useful. Recreation and entertainment including music, dance, theater, games, and sports have become important. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communication related, transportation related, building related, and food related occupations are connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction, dress and adornment, living and dwelling, and vital customs are important. Conceptual culture Philosophy including metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and philosophical schools and doctrines is also useful. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, geometry, analysis, algebra, arithmetic, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including particular works, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including languages of the world, writing, and linguistics can be connected. Material culture Miscellaneous artifacts such as sculpture, medicines, toys, and musical instruments can be connected. Communication technology including electronic communication, graphic communication, and written communication can be connected. Transportation technology including space transportation, air transportation, water transportation, land transportation, and packaging can be connected. Clothing and dress including adornment, garments, and fabrics can be connected. Foodstuffs including prepared foods, preserved and processed foods, and raw foodstuffs can be connected. Building technology including outdoor structures, complete buildings, building components, furnishings, and materials can be connected. Industrial technology including advanced technology, utilities, machinery, chemical techology, fuels, and tools can be connected. Anthropology Particular groups Particular groups are also important to economics. Human geography European geography including Balkan geography, Italian geography, Iberian geography, Eastern European geography, Central European geography, Northwest European geography, Island European geography, and Scandinavian geography can be connected. Asian geography including Southwest Asian geography, South Asian geography, Southeast Asian geography, East Asian geography, Central Asian geography, and North Asian geography can be connected. African geography including North African geography, East African geography, West African geography, North Central African geography, South Central African geography, and Southern African geography can be connected. North American geography including Northern North American geography, Middle North American geography, and Southern North American geography can be connected. South American geography can be connected. Oceanic geography can be connected. Human ecology Human effects on the environment can be connected. Relations with other life can be connected. Environmental influence on people can be connected. Physical anthropology Human dispersion can be connected. Racial variation can be connected. Human origins can be connected. Demography Population change can be connected. Population size and structure can be connected. Mortality and morbidity can be connected. Migration can be connected. Birth and fertility can be connected. Social foundations Social group behavior can be connected. Social group types can be connected. Social control can be connected. Social interaction can be connected. Social presentation can be connected. Personal studies Biography Major figures in economics include: Mohammed Newton T'sai Lun Gutenberg Columbus Pasteur Galileo Moses Augustus Lavoisier Constantine Watt Marx Faraday Maxwell Luther Ford Adam Smith Edison Morton Psychology including behavioral fundamentals, mind, and behavior patterns is important. Social psychology can be connected. Personality can be connected. Mental disorders can be connected. Developmental psychology can be connected. The human body including body systems, body functions, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance may be useful. Science Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory may be useful. Earth science including geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology can be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and local astronomy can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances can be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, quantum physics, relativity, electromagnetism, thermodyanmics, and mechanics

As with institutions in general, economic systems, companies, and economic activities can be followed through history. They are somewhat difficult to trace in prehistory, but information in antiquity and through classical and medieval times is more abundant. Their modern history can be examined more thoroughly and their future can also be examined.

Sociology

Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be applied to economic systems, industries, and economic activities.

Other Institutions

Religion

Particular traditions can be connected. Abrahamic religion including Islam has not been carefully examined. Christianity including Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Old Christianity, and Mormonism all have economic influences. Islam can be connected. Judaism can be connected. Secularism can be connected. Asiatic religion including Zoroastrianism, Manicheanism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism also has an influence on economics. Pagan religion including Asian pagan, European pagan, African pagan, American Indian pagan, and Neopagan religion can be connected.

Religious organization such as unstructured, fragmented, and unified religions, practices, and beliefs seems to be somwhat weakly connected to economics.

Government

Particular governments including local governments, national governments such as Monarchies, dictatorships, and democratic governments, and international governments including imperial, colonial, and modern compacts are closely connected to economics. Reigional associations, special purpose associations, and temporary alliances can be connected. World government such as the League of Nations and the United Nations can be connected. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations can be connected. Government structure such as political parties, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, government heads, and government forms have a great deal to do with economics. Law including tribal law, asiatic law, Western law, and International law is connected to economics.

Education

Education can be connected to economics. Particular schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be considered. Higher education can be connected.

Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be considered. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be considered. Teaching and Research can be considered.

Families

Particular families, and kinship, parenting, and marriage can be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture

Cultural events such as meeting, holidays, miscellaneous events, and disasters are useful. Recreation and entertainment including music, dance, theater, games, and sports have become important. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communication related, transportation related, building related, and food related occupations are connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction, dress and adornment, living and dwelling, and vital customs are important.

Conceptual culture

Philosophy including metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and philosophical schools and doctrines is also useful. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, geometry, analysis, algebra, arithmetic, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including particular works, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including languages of the world, writing, and linguistics can be connected.

Material culture

Miscellaneous artifacts such as sculpture, medicines, toys, and musical instruments can be connected. Communication technology including electronic communication, graphic communication, and written communication can be connected. Transportation technology including space transportation, air transportation, water transportation, land transportation, and packaging can be connected. Clothing and dress including adornment, garments, and fabrics can be connected. Foodstuffs including prepared foods, preserved and processed foods, and raw foodstuffs can be connected. Building technology including outdoor structures, complete buildings, building components, furnishings, and materials can be connected. Industrial technology including advanced technology, utilities, machinery, chemical techology, fuels, and tools can be connected.

Anthropology

Particular groups

Particular groups are also important to economics.

Human geography

European geography including Balkan geography, Italian geography, Iberian geography, Eastern European geography, Central European geography, Northwest European geography, Island European geography, and Scandinavian geography can be connected. Asian geography including Southwest Asian geography, South Asian geography, Southeast Asian geography, East Asian geography, Central Asian geography, and North Asian geography can be connected. African geography including North African geography, East African geography, West African geography, North Central African geography, South Central African geography, and Southern African geography can be connected. North American geography including Northern North American geography, Middle North American geography, and Southern North American geography can be connected. South American geography can be connected. Oceanic geography can be connected.

Human ecology

Human effects on the environment can be connected. Relations with other life can be connected. Environmental influence on people can be connected.

Physical anthropology

Human dispersion can be connected. Racial variation can be connected. Human origins can be connected.

Demography

Population change can be connected. Population size and structure can be connected. Mortality and morbidity can be connected. Migration can be connected. Birth and fertility can be connected.

Social foundations

Social group behavior can be connected. Social group types can be connected. Social control can be connected. Social interaction can be connected. Social presentation can be connected.

Personal studies

Biography

Major figures in economics include:

Psychology including behavioral fundamentals, mind, and behavior patterns is important. Social psychology can be connected. Personality can be connected. Mental disorders can be connected. Developmental psychology can be connected.

The human body including body systems, body functions, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance may be useful.

Science

Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory may be useful. Earth science including geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology can be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and local astronomy can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances can be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, quantum physics, relativity, electromagnetism, thermodyanmics, and mechanics

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