What is the difference between economics and power relations?
Human nature I understand -- people have mental/emotional shortcuts that are not precise and accurate rational analysis.
Human nature I understand -- people have mental/emotional shortcuts that are not precise and accurate rational analysis.
In an ideal world, economics would study power relations as they relate to money -- that's what the old economists (19th century and so) called "political economy".
In the present world, economics are a shallow ideology around the "free market", with naive abstractions and axioms. Usually these are mostly peddled by the media and "popularizer" economists at the masses, but what actual academic economists sell is not that much better.
“Money” is overly restrictive, it's really all goods and services, and the old “political economy” is a substantial part of what eventually became the field of “political science”. It may not still be considered mainly in the scope of Economics departments, but then what used to be called “natural philosophy, while still studied, isn't part of scope of the Philosophy department.