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What does economics study?
Economics is a theory that studies the law of human economic activities, that is, the law of value creation, transformation and realization-the law of economic development, which is divided into political economics and scientific economics.

The development of economics was once divided into two main branches, microeconomics and macroeconomics. Economics originated from China's ancient economic thought and early economics represented by Xenophon and Aristotle. With the development of economists such as Adam Smith, Marx, Keynes and China, economics has gradually developed from political economics to scientific economics, and its theoretical system and practical application have been continuously improved.

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1, the core idea of economics

The core idea of economics is to realize the optimal allocation and regeneration of resources, create, transform and realize value to the maximum extent, meet the needs of human material and cultural life and promote the sustainable development of society through the study, grasp and application of economic laws.

2. Economic thinking mode

Economic way of thinking? Understand economic phenomena, grasp economic laws, reveal economic essence and guide economic work. Due to the complexity of economic phenomena, the economic thinking mode must be a nonlinear thinking mode of symmetric logic. ?

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