The freedom to produce, trade and consume any goods and services acquired without the use of force, fraud or theft.

(sociology) The ability of an individual or family to improve their income, and social status, in an individual lifetime or between generations.

(economics, politics) Interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science in explaining how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system — capitalist, socialist, mixed, and so on — influence each other.

Alternative spelling of macroeconomic.

Of or pertaining to a combination of social and economic factors.

A diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy or matter, or numbers of organisms within each trophic level in a food chain or food web.

An attempt to economize that fails because the less expensive approach is inferior in some way.

(economics) Real or financial capital, or the two together.

plural of economic capital

(economics) The branch of economics that concerns the description and explanation of economic phenomena and their causal relationships