What are the branches of economics?

Macroeconomics is a subject in western economics that studies a country's economic aggregate, total demand and supply, gross national income and its composition, money and finance, population and employment, factors and endowments, economic cycle and economic growth, economic expectation and economic policy, international trade and international economy.

Macroeconomics belongs to the paradigm of western economics. Because the macro-economic field is separated from the micro-economic field, and its relationship with scientific general economics is neither whole nor local, nor general nor special, it is impossible to study the general law of economic development and the special law of macro-economic field, and only the macro-economic phenomenon can be described in a phenomenological sense.

From the perspective of science of science, macroeconomics can't be a real discipline, because it can't study the general economic laws and special economic laws in the field of macroeconomics.

2. Microeconomics

Microeconomics is a discipline in western economics that studies microeconomic phenomena such as individual family enterprises, producers and consumers, products and transactions, supply and demand, cost and profit, utility and price, market boundary and government intervention, game and countermeasures, competition and cooperation, equilibrium and distribution.

Microeconomics belongs to the paradigm of western economics. Because the macroeconomic field is separated from the microeconomic field, and the relationship with scientific general economics is neither whole nor local, nor general nor special, it is impossible to study the general law of economic development and the special law of microeconomic field, and only the microeconomic phenomenon can be described in the phenomenological sense.

From the perspective of science of science, microeconomics can't be a real discipline because it can't study the general economic laws and special economic laws in microeconomics.

3. Mercantilism

The mercantilist school was born in the15th century, believing that the direct source of wealth is the circulation field, insisting on international trade and protecting the domestic market.

The development of the mercantilist school can be divided into two historical periods, from the second half of15th century to the first half of17th century, which is early mercantilism, and from the first half of17th century to the second half of18th century, which is late mercantilism.

In the early days, it was advocated that the export of gold and silver was strictly prohibited, and foreign trade followed the principle of "buy less and sell more". The representatives are Italian Antonio Serra, Englishman John Hale and Frenchman Ann de Montclair.

In the later period, it attached importance to supporting the development of handicraft industry in factories and expanding commodity exports, allowing currency exports and developing colonial transshipment trade, advocating lowering prices and foreign competition, but demanding that foreign trade exceed demand and obtain a trade surplus. The representative figures are Thomas Meng in Britain, james stuart and Philip Wilhelm von Honicke in Germany.

4. Marx's Political Economy

Marxist political economy is a science in which Karl Marx and friedrich engels use dialectical materialism and historical materialism to clarify the laws of production, distribution, exchange and consumption of material materials at all stages of human society.

5. Classical Economics

/kloc-after the middle of the 0/7th century, first in Britain, then in France, classical economics came into being, from the circulation process to the production process. The pioneers of classical economics are Petty in Britain and BuaGilbert in France.

Petty's main contribution is to put forward some basic viewpoints of labor theory of value, and on this basis, the categories of wages, land rent and interest are preliminarily investigated. BuaGilbert, the founder of French physiocracy school, pointed out that the circulation process does not create wealth, and only agriculture and animal husbandry are the sources of wealth.

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Employment direction of economics major

1, economic forecast, analyst

Career Profile: This position is distributed in various industries, but it is generally only set up in relatively large companies and economic decision-making departments in China. Mainly responsible for the collection and analysis of various market data. With the continuous improvement of marketization, the importance of market research and analysis will become more and more obvious.

2. Foreign trade personnel

Career profile: selling products produced by "world factory" to foreign customers; Looking for foreign sources for domestic customers.

3. Marketing personnel

Career Profile: As long as there are products and services for sale, there will be sales positions for recruitment. For industries with technical background such as telecommunications and software, the demand for sales will continue to rise. Even in the non-technical field, sales position has always been one of the most demanding job categories in the market.

4. Management positions

Career profile: Most of the first management positions of college students are front-line managers, such as production management, administrative management, personnel management and financial management.

5. Banking employees

Career profile: Graduates majoring in economics can work in banking, such as policy banks such as Development Bank and Agricultural Development Bank, four major banks, joint-stock banks, city commercial banks, rural commercial banks, village banks and branches of foreign banks. And they can also work in regulatory agencies such as the People's Bank of China or the Banking Regulatory Bureau.

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Baidu encyclopedia-economics major

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