Before the 18th century, great empires rose and fell with economies that functioned without people specifically studying them as a distinct academic discipline, as evidenced by historical figures from Aristotle to Jesus presenting answers to economic questions without first understanding what the fundamental question was.

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Now economies have always been a thing, and before people even knew what they were doing they were attempting to satisfy their desires with the limited resources they had available to them.

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