[[Image:NYSE-floor.jpg|right|thumb|Face-to-face trading on the [[New York Stock Exchange]]'s trading floor.]]
[[Image:NYSE-floor.jpg|right|thumb|Face-to-face trading on the [[New York Stock Exchange]]'s trading floor.]]
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'''Economics''' is a social [[science]] concerned with how society produces, allocates, and consumes goods and services.
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'''Economics''' is a social [[science]] concerned with how society produces, allocates, and consumes goods and services. Economic freedom, essential to prosperity, is protected in the [[United States]] by the [[Constitution]] and its republican form of [[government]].