Economics and finance look at money and markets. Economics writing examines the forces that govern how resources are produced, distributed and consumed. Finance writing covers subjects relating to money management at an individual, corporate or government level. Economics and finance include the fields of business, behavioural economics, econometrics, labour economics and socioeconomics.

This section covers:

• Economics and finance writing style
• Challenges in economics and finance writing
• Types of economics and finance publications
• Economics and finance writing resources.

Other relevant sections

How to:

• use clear and appropriate language
• write about evidence
• write about risk
• write about data and statistics
• cite other work.

How to present and format:

• titles of documents and other resources
• acronyms and initialisms
• equations
• numbers and units
• statistics
• references.

How to capitalise:

• organisations and institutions
• proper nouns.

How to format, design and include:

• tables
• graphs
• diagrams.

Related subject areas

• Mathematics and statistics

Types of publications and content

• Web content
• Books and reports
• Journal articles
• Guidelines and manuals
• Theses
• Presentations
• Academic posters
• Grant applications
• News articles and press releases