Economics Economicsis the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek “oikonomia”, where ‘oikos’means "house" and ` nomos’ means “custom" or "law". In this sense “oikonomia” means "management of a household, or "rules of the house"
There
are a variety of modern definitions of economics. Some of the differences may
reflect evolving views of the subject or different views among economists.
Alfred
Marshall provides a still widely-cited
definition in his textbook Principles of Economics (1890) that extends analysis
beyond wealth and from the societal to the macroeconomic level:
-----Economics
is a study of man in the ordinary business of life. It enquires how he gets his
income and how he uses it. Thus, it is on the one side, the study of wealth and
on the other and more important side, a part of the study of man.
----Economics
is a science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and
scarce means which have alternative uses.
Lastly we can say that, the
theories, principles, and models that deal with how the market process works.
It attemptsto explain how wealthis created and distributed in communities, how
people allocateresources that are scarce and have many alternative uses, and
other such matters that arise in dealing with human wants and their
satisfaction.