User:Mdd/Economic diagram

An economic diagram' is a diagram in the field of economics, which represents some sort of economic features.

Overview

 * "Figures are part of the basic toolbox of the modern economist"


 * "Diagrams are used in investigation and exploration leading to discovery. Diagrams illustrate a discovery arrived at by other means: observation, intuition, logic, mathematics..."

History

 * "... the two editors provide ... as a short history of the use of figures and diagrams in economics. In the latter, they give some insights into periods—that is, basically, pre-1870—that are not covered in the book, which focuses on modern economics. Following the introduction, there is an interesting appendix that lists curves/diagrams in chronological order of their “discovery”, together with the name of the first economist to draw them (pp. 20-23)..."

18th century
 * Tableau économique by François Quesnay, 1759
 * Products Map of Europe by August Crome, 1782:
 * Time series graph of trade balances by William Playfair, 1786
 * Exports and Imports of Scotland 1780-81 by William Playfair, 1786

Types of economic diagrams
Contemporary types of economic diagrams