A household consists of one or more persons who live in the same dwelling. It may be of a single family or another type of person group. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is important to economics and inheritance.
Familienidylle by Aimé Pez, 1839
Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
A 1638 painting of a French seaport during the heyday of mercantilism
The publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1776 is considered to be the first formalisation of economic thought.
The Marxist critique of political economy comes from the work of German philosopher Karl Marx.
John Maynard Keynes was a key theorist in economics.