Economics

cosmos 11th December 2016 at 2:02am
Engineering Humanities Social sciences

Economics is the social science that describes the factors that determine the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. It also includes the methods used for the purposeful Engineering of such processes, in a complex Society.

An https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy (Greek οίκος – "household" and νέμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents in a given geographical location.

Macroeconomics

Microeconomics


Economic and product cycle

Diagram of a product cycle (showing the main phases in the life of a product).

The economic cycle involves the product cycle, plus steps that control the product cycle, which involves systems like markets.

Raw material extraction

Production of goods

Industry, the production of goods, often by processing raw materials (Manufacturing)

Distribution of goods

Transport, Trading, markets

Consumptions of goods

Demand, use, Culture, trends, necessity, Psychology

Disposal and recycling of goods

Disposal, Recycling


Economic sector

  • Primary (raw materials)
  • Secondary (manufacturing and processing)
  • Tertiary (services)

Quaternary: Data & Knowledge, information services

Quinary sector: human services

Economic development correlated with an increase in the complexity of the economic activity.


See also Resource management.

Tax heavens

https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundrisse

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-future-of-robot-labour-has-everything-to-do-with-capitalism

http://wol.iza.org/articles/who-owns-the-robots-rules-the-world/long