bioeconomicsn.
/ˌbʌɪəʊiːkəˈnɒmɪks/, /ˌbʌɪəʊɛkəˈnɒmɪks/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊɛkəˈnɑmɪks/, /ˌbaɪoʊikəˈnɑmɪks/ With singular agreement. The interaction between economics and biological systems (including human families), usually taking into account the economic value of natural resources; any of various fields of study concerned with this; (now usually) spec. a mathematical field of study concerned with the optimization of the biological and economic productivity of living resources (such as plant or animal populations) which are used commercially.
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statics1848
classical economics1885
bioeconomics1913
welfare economics1920
econometry1926
econometrics1931
microeconomics1943
macroeconomics1945
development economics1959
microsimulation1966
public choice1968
1913 H. Reinheimer Evolution Co-operation Pref. p. viii A continuation and combination of the ‘eugenic’ and economic threads no doubt would have led Darwin into the study of Bio-Economics proper, which I am now endeavouring to set forth for the first time.
1936 Amer. Econ. Rev. 26 163 Personality economics and bio-economics of the family.
1955 Science 29 July 185/2 But there are other obvious fields, for instance, bioeconomics. We would have to start with man as the other natural sciences describe him, in a setting that may well be called ecological.
1975 Business Week (Nexis) 24 Mar. 108 A new field of ‘bioeconomics’, a discipline that takes fuller account of man's use of energy in economic activities.
1992 Technol. Rev. Nov.–Dec. 73/2 Excessive population growth..has to be brought under control. Otherwise all efforts in conservation and sustainable bioeconomics will eventually fail.
2003 P. A. Corning Nature's Magic Notes 344 Bioeconomics is..an emerging discipline that melds economics and biology.
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