Economy - Definition and Overview

The word economy can refer to any of several things:

• the "economy" of the world — see world economy
• the "economy" of a country — see economics and economic system
• Hydrogen economy
• Judicial economy
• Political economy
• Plutonium economy
• Economy (Eastern Orthodoxy) (concerning a bishop's discretionary power to relax rules)
• Economy, Indiana
• Economy, Pennsylvania
• Economy is a chapter from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau. See Economy (Thoreau).