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Economía (de οἶκος, "casa" en el sentido de patrimonio, y νέμω, "administrar") es la ciencia social que estudia las relaciones sociales que tienen que ver con los procesos de producción, intercambio, distribución y consumo de bienes y servicios, entendidos estos como medios de satisfacción de necesidades humanas y resultado individual o colectivo de la sociedad. Otras doctrinas ayudan a avanzar en este estudio: la psicología y la filosofía intentan explicar cómo se determinan los objetivos, la historia registra el cambio de objetivos en el tiempo, la sociología interpreta el comportamiento humano en un contexto social y la ciencia política explica las relaciones de poder que intervienen en los procesos económicos.
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ENGLISH
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, "house") + νόμος (nomos, "custom" or "law"), hence "rules of the house(hold)". Current economic models emerged from the broader field of political economy in the late 19th century. A primary stimulus for the development of modern economics was the desire to use an empirical approach more akin to the physical sciences.
Economics aims to explain how economies work and how economic agents interact. Economic analysis is applied throughout society, in business, finance and government, but also in crime, education, the family, health, law, politics, religion, social institutions, war, and science. The expanding domain of economics in the social sciences has been described as economic imperialism.
Common distinctions are drawn between various dimensions of economics. The primary textbook distinction is between microeconomics, which examines the behavior of basic elements in the economy, including individual markets and agents (such as consumers and firms, buyers and sellers), and macroeconomics, which addresses issues affecting an entire economy, including unemployment, inflation, economic growth, and monetary and fiscal policy. Other distinctions include: between positive economics (describing "what is") and normative economics (advocating "what ought to be"); between economic theory and applied economics; between mainstream economics (more "orthodox" dealing with the "rationality-individualism-equilibrium nexus") and heterodox economics (more "radical" dealing with the "institutions-history-social structure nexus"); and between rational and behavioral economics.
