This English word can be transliterated into Tagalog as ekonomiks or even as ikonomiks.
The Filipino word incongruously recommended for academic texts by the national language comission is ekonómiká, from the Spanish phrase ciencia económica.
Economics is the study of human behaviour as it relates to production, consumption and acquisition. In this sense, “economy” originates from a Greek word for ‘household management’ or ‘management of the household’, which was what managers did in ancient times. We now call them economists.
Tagalog purists have created the neologism agimatan for there to be a “native” equivalent to the English word.
MGA KAHULUGAN SA TAGALOG
Ang economics ay ang agham ukol sa paglikha, pamamahagi, at paggamit ng yaman, kalakal, at serbisyo.
ekonomísta: tao na dalubhasa sa ekonomika
ekonomísta: tao na matipid
