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Definitions of economics
Various definitions of economics have been proposed, including attempts to define precisely "what economists do".
The term economics was originally known as "political economy". This term evolved from the French Mercantilist usage of économie politique, which expanded the notion of economy from the ancient Greek concept of household management to the national level, as the public administration of state affairs.
In 1770, Scottish economist Sir James Steuart wrote An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy, the first book in English with "political economy" in its title, describing it as:
The title page lists subjects including "population, agriculture, trade, industry, money, coins, interest, circulation, banks, exchange, public credit, and taxes".
In 1803, French economist Jean-Baptiste Say distinguished the subject from its public policy uses, defining it as the science of the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. On the satirical side, Thomas Carlyle (1849) coined 'the dismal science' as an epithet for classical economics, a term often linked to the pessimistic analysis of Malthus (1798). English philosopher John Stuart Mill (1844) defined the subject in a social context as:
The shift from the social to the individual level appears within the main works of the Marginal Revolution. Carl Menger's 1871 definition reflects the focus on the economizing man:
William Stanley Jevons, another influential author of the Marginal Revolution, in 1871 defined economics as highlighting the hedonic and quantitative aspects of the science:
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 microeconomic level, creating a certain synthesis of the views of those still more sympathetic with the classical political economy (with social wealth focus) and those early adopters of the views expressed in the Marginal Revolution (with individual needs focus). His inclusion of the expression wellbeing was also very significant to the discussion on the nature of economics:
Definitions of economics
Various definitions of economics have been proposed, including attempts to define precisely "what economists do".
The term economics was originally known as "political economy". This term evolved from the French Mercantilist usage of économie politique, which expanded the notion of economy from the ancient Greek concept of household management to the national level, as the public administration of state affairs.
In 1770, Scottish economist Sir James Steuart wrote An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy, the first book in English with "political economy" in its title, describing it as:
The title page lists subjects including "population, agriculture, trade, industry, money, coins, interest, circulation, banks, exchange, public credit, and taxes".
In 1803, French economist Jean-Baptiste Say distinguished the subject from its public policy uses, defining it as the science of the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. On the satirical side, Thomas Carlyle (1849) coined 'the dismal science' as an epithet for classical economics, a term often linked to the pessimistic analysis of Malthus (1798). English philosopher John Stuart Mill (1844) defined the subject in a social context as:
The shift from the social to the individual level appears within the main works of the Marginal Revolution. Carl Menger's 1871 definition reflects the focus on the economizing man:
William Stanley Jevons, another influential author of the Marginal Revolution, in 1871 defined economics as highlighting the hedonic and quantitative aspects of the science:
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 microeconomic level, creating a certain synthesis of the views of those still more sympathetic with the classical political economy (with social wealth focus) and those early adopters of the views expressed in the Marginal Revolution (with individual needs focus). His inclusion of the expression wellbeing was also very significant to the discussion on the nature of economics: