Economics studies social relationships pertaining to producing and allocating resources.

Economists produce and read:

• articles in peer reviewed scholarly journals reporting results of experiments and analyses - these are the main focus of most work in economics.
• working papers - pre-published reports of ongoing work, for feedback and to share preliminary results.
• data - of many types and from many sources; economics is a data-intensive field.
• books - broader overviews of topics, often for non-specialists.