From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstaticsstat‧ics /ˈstætɪks/ noun [uncountable] HPthe science dealing with the forces that produce balance in objects that are not moving → dynamics
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statics• We are particularly interested in the comparative statics, and for this purpose we write down the equations of change.• The next set of problems concerns the nature of the comparative statics exercise implicit in the redistributive studies.• For a positive demand shock, this means that we can consider the two comparative statics results in Section 5.1 and 5.2.