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The earlier term for the discipline was "political economy", but since the late 19th century, it has commonly been called "economics". [22] The term is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia) which is a term for the "way (nomos) to run a household (oikos)", or in other words the know-how of an οἰκονομικός (oikonomikos), or "household or homestead manager".
All India Secondary School Examination, commonly known as the class 10th board exam, is a centralized public examination that students in schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, primarily in India but also in other Indian-patterned schools affiliated to the CBSE across the world, taken at the end of class 10. The board ...
A Home Economics instructor giving a demonstration, Seattle, 1953 A training class 1985 at Wittgenstein Reifenstein schools. Home economics, also called domestic science or family and consumer sciences (often shortened to FCS or FACS), [1] is a subject concerning human development, personal and family finances, consumer issues, housing and interior design, nutrition and food preparation, as ...
The Derozio Award is an annual prize awarded to the top Indian educationists by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations. [7] [8] It was instituted in 1999 in memory of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, a poet and educator from West Bengal.
The history of economic thought is the study of the philosophies of the different thinkers and theories in the subjects that later became political economy and economics, from the ancient world to the present day. This field encompasses many disparate schools of economic thought.
Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and institutions.
Financial economics studies how rational investors would apply decision theory to investment management.The subject is thus built on the foundations of microeconomics and derives several key results for the application of decision making under uncertainty to the financial markets.
Economics can be described as all of the following: Academic discipline – body of knowledge given to, or received by, a disciple (); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialize in.