commerce, finance, business, public economy, political economy, science of wealth, economic theory, development of public wealth, commercial theory, business theory, financial theory; science of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, principles of business, principles of finance, principles of industry, study of industry, theory of trade, financial principles, economic principles, the dismal science*; see also social science.

Terms relating to economic theories include: balance of trade, fair trade, free trade, trade deficit, Gresham's Law, bad money drives out good, laissez faire, law of supply and demand, supply and demand, theory of the marginal producer, Ricardian economics, Keynesian economics, Laffer Curve, supply-side economics, trickle-down theory, Reaganomics, doctrine of rents, sound money, cheap money, bimetallism, gold standard, fiat money, protective tariff, production for use, right to work, cost of living index, consumer price index, business cycle, debtor's economy, creditor's economy, economy of scarcity, economy of abundance, guns or butter economics, market economy, free-enterprise economy, controlled economy, collective bargaining, mass production, cooperative buying and marketing, Marxian economics, input-output model, socioeconomics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, corporate state, recession, depression, inflation, stagflation, deflation.