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The terms ‘economy’ and ‘economic’ or ‘economical’, are now used chiefly in two meanings, which it is well to distinguish clearly; since, though divergent in their history, they are liable to fusion, and therefore in some degree to confusion.
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Sidgwick, H. (2018). Economic Science and Economics. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_474
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