the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth 经济学 ■the condition of a region or group as regards material prosperity 经济情况 he is responsible for the island's modest economics. 他对该岛不繁荣的经济状况负有责任。
语源
late 16th cent. (denoting the science of household management): from economic + the plural suffix -s, originally on the pattern of Greek ta oikonomika (plural), the name of a treatise by Aristotle. Current senses date from the late 18th cent