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economics

CEFR B1

the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management

In a sentence

Six example sentences with economics, each labelled with its topic.

  • She studied economics before running for office, which is why her speeches lean on trade data rather than slogans.

    Politics

  • A course in economics taught him why a carbon tax changes what factories build, not just what they say.

    Environment

  • Before 1900 few universities treated economics as a separate field, and lectures on trade sat inside moral philosophy.

    History

  • Behavioral economics borrows from psychology to explain why people spend a windfall faster than a raise of the same size.

    Psychology

  • The bond trader's degree in economics shows in how she reads an inflation report before touching a single price.

    Finance

  • The founder's background in economics made her price the product by what customers would pay, not by what it cost.

    Startups

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