Branches of economics


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BRANCHES OF ECONOMICS

Development economics
Key people: Simon Kuznets and W. Arthur Lewis, Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus.
Concerned with issues of poverty and under-development in poorer countries of the world. Development economics is concerned with both micro and macro aspects of economic development. Issues include

  • Trade vs aid

  • Increasing capital investment.

  • Best ways to promote economic development

  • Third World debt

Econometrics
Key people: Jan Tinbergen
Use of data to find simple relationships. Econometrics uses statistical methods, regression models and data to predict the outcome of economic policies. For example, Okun’s law suggests a relationship between economic growth and unemployment.
Labour economics
Key people: Knut Wicksell
Concentration on wages, labour employment and labour markets. Labour economics starts from the neo-classical premise of labour supply and marginal revenue product of labour.
Recent developments in labour economics have placed greater emphasis on non-monetary factors, such as motivation, enjoyment and labour market imperfections.
Other schools of economics
Chicago school – Based on neo-classical economics, rational choice and benefits of free markets. Key people from Chicago university, include Frank Knight, Milton Friedman, Eugene Fama and Gary Becker
Institutional economics – A look at how institutions, society and social trends can influence economics. A forerunner of behavioural economics. Key people include Thorstein Veblen, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Ha-Joon Chang.
Distributism/social-democratic approach. Seeking a third way between capitalism and socialism.
Real Business Cycle – Models that suggest macroeconomic fluctuations caused by supply-side changes, such as technological shocks. See – Real business cycle
Mercantilism – Early model of economics emphasising tariff barriers and the accumulation of gold reserves. Mercantilism

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