很多人认为经济学是关于金钱.而在某种程度上, 这是真的.经济学跟钱有很大的关系: 如人们工资是多少,有多少钱可以花; 购买各种物品要多少花费; 公司赚多少钱; 经济总量是多少钱.但是,尽管在我们生活的各方面与金钱有关,经济学不仅仅是金钱的研究.它关注的是以下几点：
商品的生产和服务:有多少经济生产商;商品和服务的特殊组合是怎样的;每个公司生产多少;他们使用的生产技术如何;他们雇用多少人.
商品的消费和服务:有多少人口作为一个整体花钱(以及多少成为储蓄); 经济方面的消费模式是什么样的; 有多少人买特别项目; 个体选择购买什么特定的项目; 影响人们的消费如价格、广告、和时尚等等因素.
Many people think that economics is about money. Well, to some extent this is true. Economics has a lot to do with money: with how much money people are paid; how much they spend; what is costs to buy various items; how much money firms earn; how much money there is in total in the economy. But despite the large number of areas in which our lives are concerned with money, economics is more than just the study of money. It is concerned with the following:
The production of goods and services: how much the economy producers; what particular combination of goods and services; how much each firm producers; what techniques of production they use; how many people they employ.
The consumption of goods and services: how much the population as a whole spends (and how much it saves); what the pattern of consumption is in the economy; how much people buy of particular items; what particular individuals choose to buy; how people’s consumption is affected by prices, advertising, fashion and other factors.