Dear Friend: Any principles text will give you a good definition--the contemporary meaning of economics, if I recall correctly, comes from Lionel Robbins' definition, but there are others--you can look up Alfred Marshall's book for earlier definitions. Best wishes. Dr S M Ghazanfar College of Business and Economics University of Idaho Tel: (208) 885 7144 Fax: (208) 885 8939 On Mon, 26 Jun 1995 [log in to unmask] wrote: > Oops. Misprint. > Economics is the study of the production AND DISTRIBUTION of > goods and services in a society and how that changes over time. > -- Mary Schweitzer >