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- S&P Global RatingsAmerican credit rating agency
- SafeguardRestraint to protect home or national industries from foreign competition
- Saltwater and freshwater economicsSchools of economic thought developed at elite colleges in the 1970s United States
- Samba effectThe samba effect is a nickname for the financial crisis in Brazil in 1999 where there was
- Samuel Bowles (economist)American economist (born 1939)
- Saving identityThe saving identity or the saving-investment identity is a concept in national income acco
- Savings accountType of bank account
- Say's lawConcept in market economics
- Scam centerHuman trafficking and fraud enterprises
- Schedule (workplace)A schedule, often called a rota or a roster, is a list of employees, and associated inform
- Schools of economic thoughtGroups who share a common perspective
- Science and technology in IsraelNational research, development and proficience of Israel
- Scottish EnlightenmentIntellectual movement in 18th–19th century Scotland
- Scottish League for the Taxation of Land ValuesThe Scottish League for the Taxation of Land Values is an independent national campaigning
- Scottish National Portrait GalleryNational Galleries Scotland: Portrait is an art museum on Queen Street, Edinburgh. Portrai
- Scramble (slave auction)Form of slave auction that took place during the Atlantic Slave Trade
- Screening (economics)Screening in economics refers to a strategy of combating adverse selection – one of the po
- Search-and-matching theoryMathematical framework in economics
- Seasonal adjustmentStatistical technique
- Secondary sectorManufacturing and construction industries
- Secured transactionA secured transaction is a loan or a credit transaction in which the lender acquires a sec
- Self-employmentState of working for oneself
- Separation of investment and retail bankingPolicy to isolate retail banking from investment risks
- Serge-Christophe KolmSerge-Christophe Kolm (born December 1932) is a French economist. His work in economics an
- Settlement riskRisk that a party fails to deliver
- Shareholder primacyConcept in corporate governance
- Shareholder valueBusiness term
- Sharing economyEconomic and social systems that enable shared access to assets
- Sherwin RosenSherwin Rosen (September 29, 1938 – March 17, 2001) was an American labor economist. He ha
- ShortageEconomic demand that exceeds supply
- Shortages in VenezuelaShortages in Venezuela of food staples and basic necessities have occurred throughout Vene
- Shoshinsha markJapanese symbol for beginner drivers
- ShrinkflationReduction of quantity/quality of a good without corresponding price reduction
- Silvana TenreyroBritish-Argentine economist
- Silver standardMonetary system
- Simon KuznetsAmerican economist and statistician (1901–1985)
- SimonyAct of selling church offices and roles
- Simple commodity productionConcept in economic theory
- Single taxTax system based on one form of taxation
- Single-price auctionSingle-price auctions are a pricing method in securities auctions that give all purchasers
- Slush fundFund used for illegal purposes
- Small but significant and non-transitory increase in priceConcept in competition law
- Smithsonian Agreement1971 multinational concord on the convertibility of the US dollar
- Social costConcept in neoclassical economics
- Social creditDistributive economic theory
- Social financeMobilising capital for projects with social or environmental goals
- Social Insurance Fund of the Russian FederationRussian federation budget fund
- Social metabolismStudy of materials and energy flows between nature and society
- Social ownershipOwnership of the means of production by society
- Social preferencesHuman tendency to care about social outcomes
- Social welfare functionFunction that ranks states of society according to their desirability
- Socialism of the 21st centuryInterpretation of socialist principles
- Socialist economicsEconomic theories, practices and norms of socialism
- Socialist ideology of the KuomintangThe historical Kuomintang socialist ideology is a form of socialist thought developed in m
- Socialist market economyChinese economic philosophy
- Socialist-oriented market economyCurrent economic system in Vietnam
- Socialization (Marxism)Economic process
- Socially responsible investingAny investment strategy combining both financial performance and social/ethical impact
- Sociocultural evolutionEvolution of societies
- SocioeconomicsSocioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how eco
- Soft landing (economics)Economic term
- Solution conceptIn game theory, a solution concept is a formal rule for predicting how a game will be play
- SolvencyTerm in finance or business
- Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nominationOn May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama announced his selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor f
- Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu theoremThe Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu theorem is an important result in general equilibrium econo
- South Sudanese poundThe South Sudanese pound (ISO code and abbreviation: SSP) is the currency of the Republic
- Southern African Customs UnionCustoms union of five countries in Southern Africa
- Southern QuestionThe term southern question indicates, in Italian historiography, the perception, which dev
- Sovereign defaultWhen a sovereign entity fails to pay its debts
- Sovereign wealth fundState-owned investment fund
- Soviet working classElement of Marxist–Leninist theory
- Spaceship EarthWorldview of Earth as an enclosed biosystem
- Spatial inequalityInequality across geographical regions
- Spearman's rank correlation coefficientNonparametric measure of rank correlation
- Spectrum auctionGovernment auction of radio spectrum
- SpeculationEngaging in risky financial transactions
- Spite (sentiment)Spite or spitefulness as a sentiment, action, or a personality trait has several possible
- Spontaneous orderTheory of economy and sociology
- Stability and Growth PactMain European Union fiscal agreement
- Stable matching theoryIn economics, stable matching theory or simply matching theory, is the study of matching m
- Standard of livingMeasure of income, comfort and services
- Staples thesisIn economic development, the staples thesis is a theory of export-led growth. The theory "
- State capacityA government's ability to do things
- State captureCorruption where private interests influence a state's decision-making processes
- State monopolyGovernment control of an industry or economic sector
- State monopoly capitalismMarxist theory
- State ownershipOwnership of industry, assets, or businesses by a public body
- State socialismPolitical strategy for implementing socialism
- Statistical areaDefined statistical regions of the United States
- Statistical discrimination (economics)Theorized behavior in economics
- Steady-state economyConstant capital and population size
- Stephen CameronStephen Cameron is an American financial analyst, economist and author. He is currently Ad
- Stephen J. DubnerStephen Joseph Dubner (born August 26, 1963) is an American author, journalist, and podcas
- Stephen Morris (economist)Stephen Edward Morris is an economic theorist and game theorist especially known for his r
- Stigler dietOptimization problem
- Stimulus (economics)Attempts to use monetary or fiscal policy to stimulate the economy
- Stock and flowTypes of quantities in financial fields
- Stock market bubbleEconomic bubble in a stock market
- Stock market crashSudden widespread decline of stock prices
- Stock valuationMethod of calculating theoretical values of companies and their stocks
- Store of valueInflation-resistant asset
- Strong dollar policyUnited States economic policy
- Structural adjustmentIMF and World Bank loans to countries in crisis
- Structural estimationIn econometrics, structural estimation is a technique for estimating deep "structural" par
- Structural unemploymentForm of involuntary unemployment
- Structuralist economicsApproach to economics
- Stylized factIn social sciences, especially economics, a stylized fact is a simplified presentation of
- Subjective expected utilityConcept in decision theory
- Subprime lendingLoans to people with higher credit risk
- Subprime mortgage crisis2007 mortgage crisis in the United States
- Subprime mortgage crisis solutions debateThe Subprime mortgage crisis solutions debate discusses various actions and proposals by e
- Subsidies in IranGovernment finance to reduce prices in Iran
- Subsistence economyEconomy directed to basic subsistence
- Substitute goodEconomics concept of goods considered interchangeable
- Substitution effectMicroeconomic effect due to a price change
- Suicide biddingSuicide bidding is a response to a tendering exercise in which a potential supplier, anxio
- Sun YefangSun Yefang (Chinese: 孙冶方; 24 October 1908 – 22 February 1983) was a pioneering Chinese eco
- Sunflower oilOil pressed from the seed of Helianthus annuus
- Sunspots (economics)In economics, the term sunspots (or sometimes "a sunspot") refers to an extrinsic random v
- Supply (economics)Amount of a good that sellers are willing to provide in the market
- Supply chain securitySupply chain security (also "supply-chain security") activities aim to enhance the securit
- Supply shockA supply shock is an event that suddenly increases or decreases the supply of a commodity
- Supply-side economicsMacroeconomic theory
- Supreme Leader of IranHighest political and religious office in Iran
- Surplus valueConcept in economics
- Survey of Professional ForecastersThe Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) is a quarterly survey of macroeconomic foreca
- Susan AtheyAmerican economist
- Suspicious activity reportReport by a financial institution
- Sustainable businessMinimal negative or positive effect on the environment
- Sustainable capitalismCapitalism based on sustainable practices
- Sveriges RiksbankCentral bank of Sweden
- Sydney CaineBritish economist and educator
- Syndicated loanLoan provided by a group of lenders
- Synthetic CDOFinancial product backed by premiums from credit default swaps
- System of National AccountsInternational standard system
- Systematic riskVulnerability to significant events that affect aggregate outcomes
- Systemic biasInherent tendency of a process to support particular outcomes
- Systemic riskRisk of collapse of an entire financial system or entire market