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Dictionary of Environmental Health

economics

The study of how and why a population chooses and uses finite resources to produce various commodities and to distribute them for consumption amongst the various groups in that society both now and in the future. Economics can include consideration of the use of money in this context, but this is neither exclusive nor inevitable.

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Economics from Dictionary of Environmental Health. ISBN: 0-203-16591-8. Published: 2003–07–18. ©2009 Taylor and Francis. All rights reserved.



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