noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
economics/sports/political etc editor
home economics
laissez-faire economics/capitalism
professor of Chinese/economics/religion etc
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She’s been named the professor of English.
supply-side economics
voodoo economics
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
classical
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Not so in new classical economics .
industrial
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Science policy and science studies; Industrial economics .
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We want to see such wastes dealt with to the highest possible standards in ways that are consistent with industrial economics .
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Marketing, sales and distribution; Industrial economics .
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Thinking he would like to work in business, he studied industrial economics at Nottingham University, where he gained a 2.1.
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Technology and innovation; Industrial economics .
international
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It is the structural nature of centre-periphery relations that explains the nature of international politics and economics .
keynesian
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The Labour government was elected at a time when Keynesian economics was moving towards being accepted as economic orthodoxy.
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The Labour Ministers were educated in the language and concepts of Keynesian economics by the academic economists in the government.
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His views on the kind of action which would be needed changed as he was educated in Keynesian economics after 1942.
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The economists Clower and Leijonhufvud have argued that a distinction needs to be drawn between Keynesian economics and the economics of Keynes.
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It made the rough and ready assumption that the underlying cure of unemployment would be provided by Keynesian economics .
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However critics of Keynesian economics consider that labour markets would clear if government and institutional impediments to greater flexibility were removed.
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The result was a triumph for Keynesian economics: a vigorous and expanding universe, filled with material objects.
labour
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Business and labour history; Labour economics .
liberal
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Second, Marxism is a challenge to the liberal view of economics .
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This marked a break with liberal economics and its traditional competitive model.
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Against this powerful combination of socialism and nationalism, liberal economics stood little chance.
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Perhaps it is time we had a choice between parties which agree that liberal free-market economics are here to stay.
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In the eyes of many, especially Washington, he succeeded, with a free press, elections and liberal economics .
modern
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Formalizing Adam Smith's remarkable insight of the Invisible Hand, this result is the foundation of modern welfare economics .
simple
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I can promise you that. Simple economics - I can't afford to leave it lying idle.
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To a certain degree, the rush to get on line boils down to simple economics .
■ NOUN
business
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Business and labour history; Business economics .
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Science policy and science studies; Business economics .
department
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The economics department at Ripon Grammar School have set up a small business producing items connected with the history of the city.
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Mr Bolona, the new finance minister, is a former head of the institute's economics department .
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Wells Fargo declined to comment on how much it might save by eliminating the economics department .
health
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Now Fuchs is a particularly good advertisement for health economics , precisely because he is no genius.
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Evaluation of the cost effectiveness of drug treatment is in its infancy, and health economics can inform the debate.
home
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The workshop and home economics area were also impressive, and the school had three computers.
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They had their civics and home economics .
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Plans exist to extend the list of short courses to business studies, geography, history, media studies and home economics .
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I am wearing a full circle-cut cotton skirt, my first, which I have made in home economics class.
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Once a week the boys went to shop and the girls to home economics .
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As recently as the 1970s, home economics classes taught students to plan menus incorporating food from each group every day.
market
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We are by nature the Party of free enterprise and market economics .
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You would have expected a convert to free market economics to have been equally scathing of both public service corporations.
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In some industries and markets , it is still a major factor in market economics .
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Amen to that. Market economics is about efficiency, not morality.
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As far back as the Middle Ages, price promotion was used as a way to develop market economics .
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The anti-institutional approach of market economics is, moreover, very narrowly conceived.
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At this point the similarity between market economics and Keynesianism becomes apparent.
minister
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His economics minister is talking of currency union between the two Germanies by July.
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Embassy officials have said that Makharadze, an economics minister , had diplomatic immunity.
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Their partners, the Free Democrats, have lost their economics minister .
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Monetarist ideas had considerable influence among economics ministers .
side
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Until recently, Dole was openly contemptuous of the supply side economics espoused by Kemp and other conservatives.
welfare
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Every novice student learns the elementary propositions of welfare economics .
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Two themes recur throughout our discussion of welfare economics in Part 3.
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In Chapter 8, where welfare economics was introduced, we stated a very important condition for an increase in economic welfare.
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Summary 1 Welfare economics deals with normative issues or value judgements.
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The theory challenges the assumption of orthodox welfare economics that the existence of market failure is sufficient reason for governmental intervention.
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Formalizing Adam Smith's remarkable insight of the Invisible Hand, this result is the foundation of modern welfare economics .
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In welfare economics we are taught that to internalize externalities by appropriate contracts is socially desirable.
■ VERB
based
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Theoretical approaches based on neo-classical economics certainly agree that inequalities may develop between regions within a country.
study
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Marxism, my friend, has studied economics and the social classes.
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Thinking he would like to work in business, he studied industrial economics at Nottingham University, where he gained a 2.1.
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He spent his vacation last year studying economics at Harvard, according to his sister Tamara, who visited him in Washington.
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Charman had moved to Leeds from his home town of Brighton to study economics and sociology at the university.
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And the more people studied economics , the more an economics degree became a requirement for a job on Wall Street.
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I studied politics, economics , like my Pop.
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For example, you may not be allowed to study , say, economics unless you also take statistics or computing.
teach
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I was teaching economics and watching people die on the streets when I began doubting what I had learned from the textbooks.
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Smith never taught a course in economics; in fact, Smith never even took a course in economics.
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Among the famous professors in the program were Rexford Tugwell, who was teaching economics .
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The principal directed her to stop discussing school politics, to teach economics , and to use more conventional teaching methods.
understand
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once lamented that since everyone handles money, there are many know-nothings who think they understand economics .
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Does she have the minimum technical and business skills needed to understand the economics of solution selling?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He knows very little about economics or international finance.
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He studied economics at Harvard University.
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Keynes's theories have had an important influence on modern economics .
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The economics of building new subway lines are being studied.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A knowledge of development economics and the challenges faced by a small, developing country would be an advantage.
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He received a master's degree in agricultural economics and a doctorate in economics and marketing from Cornell University.
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However, at present, the economics of using solar-produced electricity to produce hydrogen from water by electrolysis are poor.
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In economics , its use is a blend of two ideas, abstraction and pure problem-solving.
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Mr Coase asked if this analysis was good economics , and showed that it was not.
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Once a week the boys went to shop and the girls to home economics .
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The reader will soon discover that I think very little of certain of the central ideas of economics .
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Whereas the endangered species listing is determined solely upon scientific data, economics play a role in deciding critical habitat.