I took Alecos' text, reorganized the structure, and tried to shorten it. Happy if you change the words, it was quickly written. Also, one might invert the order (On-topic first).

Welcome to Economics.SE, the free, community-driven Questions and Answers site for economics. Not all questions with some economic-financial content are on-topic here. Here is a differentiation.

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• Personal finance: Personal matters of finance and investment are offtopic here. Have a go at Personal Finance & Money.
• Accounting: Accounting is a separate discipline, and there is no StackExchange site dedicated to that matter yet. You could propose one.
• Too broad questions: We are dealing with a scientific discipline here, and science works by initially narrowing its focus in order to be able to go deep. Do the same -narrow the focus of your question. In social sciences, very rarely do we have truly "universal laws", and Economics is no different.
• Opinion-requests: it is also very natural to want someone to evaluate, or to make a value-judgement on, something that preoccupies you: But questions like "Is communism better than capitalism? Is money a sin?" are off-topic here.Try to ask something that a member can answer using facts, studies, economic theory and reasoning -not moral/political/religious/philosophical values

#On-topic, but not perfectly suited The following topics belong to economics and are welcome here. However, there may be a different StackExchange community with a more narrow focus, where you might get an answer of higher quality:

• Financial Economics: There is also Quantitative Finance.
• Corporate Finance/Business Economics: Corporate Finance/Business Economics is usually either really simple Economics, or horribly complex applied micro-macro-economic-o-metrics (and then some). Fire away and ask though, and we will see what happens.

#On-Topic

• Econometrics: Especially for theoretical questions, have a look at Cross-Validated.

• Software questions: Questions related to software used in economics and econometrics, are on-topic here.
• Literature/books requests
• Queries for Data: Queries for Data sets and data in general are on-topic here. You can also try the Open Data SE site.
• Homework/Self-study question: always a hot issue in SE sites, and always difficult to commit to a very specific policy. You may see your such question getting just hints, or quick answers, or very long educational answers, or simply being closed as "off-topic" -if the members of this community feel that you want them to do your homework for you. To avoid that, you have at least to present in the question what part of the question you do understand, and where specifically lies your problem.

I took Alecos' text, reorganized the structure, and tried to shorten it. Happy if you change the words, it was quickly written. Also, one might invert the order (On-topic first).

Welcome to Economics.SE, the free, community-driven Questions and Answers site for economics. Not all questions with some economic-financial content are on-topic here. Here is a differentiation.

Off-topic

• Personal finance: Personal matters of finance and investment are offtopic here. Have a go at Personal Finance & Money.
• Accounting: Accounting is a separate discipline, and there is no StackExchange site dedicated to that matter yet. You could propose one.
• Too broad questions: We are dealing with a scientific discipline here, and science works by initially narrowing its focus in order to be able to go deep. Do the same -narrow the focus of your question. In social sciences, very rarely do we have truly "universal laws", and Economics is no different.
• Opinion-requests: it is also very natural to want someone to evaluate, or to make a value-judgement on, something that preoccupies you: But questions like "Is communism better than capitalism? Is money a sin?" are off-topic here.Try to ask something that a member can answer using facts, studies, economic theory and reasoning -not moral/political/religious/philosophical values

#On-topic, but not perfectly suited The following topics belong to economics and are welcome here. However, there may be a different StackExchange community with a more narrow focus, where you might get an answer of higher quality:

• Financial Economics: There is also Quantitative Finance.
• Corporate Finance/Business Economics: Corporate Finance/Business Economics is usually either really simple Economics, or horribly complex applied micro-macro-economic-o-metrics (and then some). Fire away and ask though, and we will see what happens.

#On-Topic

• Econometrics: Especially for theoretical questions, have a look at Cross-Validated.

• Software questions: Questions related to software used in economics and econometrics, are on-topic here.
• Literature/books requests
• Queries for Data: Queries for Data sets and data in general are on-topic here. You can also try the Open Data SE site.
• Homework/Self-study question: always a hot issue in SE sites, and always difficult to commit to a very specific policy. You may see your such question getting just hints, or quick answers, or very long educational answers, or simply being closed as "off-topic" -if the members of this community feel that you want them to do your homework for you. To avoid that, you have at least to present in the question what part of the question you do understand, and where specifically lies your problem.

I took Alecos' text, reorganized the structure, and tried to shorten it. Happy if you change the words, it was quickly written. Also, one might invert the order (On-topic first).

Welcome to Economics.SE, the free, community-driven Questions and Answers site for economics. Not all questions with some economic-financial content are on-topic here. Here is a differentiation.

Off-topic

• Personal finance: Personal matters of finance and investment are offtopic here. Have a go at Personal Finance & Money.
• Accounting: Accounting is a separate discipline, and there is no StackExchange site dedicated to that matter yet. You could propose one.
• Too broad questions: We are dealing with a scientific discipline here, and science works by initially narrowing its focus in order to be able to go deep. Do the same -narrow the focus of your question. In social sciences, very rarely do we have truly "universal laws", and Economics is no different.
• Opinion-requests: it is also very natural to want someone to evaluate, or to make a value-judgement on, something that preoccupies you: But questions like "Is communism better than capitalism? Is money a sin?" are off-topic here.Try to ask something that a member can answer using facts, studies, economic theory and reasoning -not moral/political/religious/philosophical values

#On-topic, but not perfectly suited The following topics belong to economics and are welcome here. However, there may be a different StackExchange community with a more narrow focus, where you might get an answer of higher quality:

• Financial Economics: There is also Quantitative Finance.
• Corporate Finance/Business Economics: Corporate Finance/Business Economics is usually either really simple Economics, or horribly complex applied micro-macro-economic-o-metrics (and then some). Fire away and ask though, and we will see what happens.

#On-Topic

• Econometrics: Especially for theoretical questions, have a look at Cross-Validated.

• Software questions: Questions related to software used in economics and econometrics, are on-topic here.
• Literature/books requests
• Queries for Data: Queries for Data sets and data in general are on-topic here. You can also try the Open Data SE site.
• Homework/Self-study question: always a hot issue in SE sites, and always difficult to commit to a very specific policy. You may see your such question getting just hints, or quick answers, or very long educational answers, or simply being closed as "off-topic" -if the members of this community feel that you want them to do your homework for you. To avoid that, you have at least to present in the question what part of the question you do understand, and where specifically lies your problem.

I took Alecos' text, reorganized the structure, and tried to shorten it. Happy if you change the words, it was quickly written. Also, one might invert the order (On-topic first).

Welcome to Economics.SE, the free, community-driven Questions and Answers site for economics. Not all questions with some economic-financial content are on-topic here. Here is a differentiation.

Off-topic

• Personal finance: Personal matters of finance and investment are offtopic here. Have a go at Personal Finance & Money.
• Accounting: Accounting is a separate discipline, and there is no StackExchange site dedicated to that matter yet. You could propose one.
• Too broad questions: We are dealing with a scientific discipline here, and science works by initially narrowing its focus in order to be able to go deep. Do the same -narrow the focus of your question. In social sciences, very rarely do we have truly "universal laws", and Economics is no different.
• Opinion-requests: it is also very natural to want someone to evaluate, or to make a value-judgement on, something that preoccupies you: But questions like "Is communism better than capitalism? Is money a sin?" are off-topic here.Try to ask something that a member can answer using facts, studies, economic theory and reasoning -not moral/political/religious/philosophical values

#On-topic, but not perfectly suited The following topics belong to economics and are welcome here. However, there may be a different StackExchange community with a more narrow focus, where you might get an answer of higher quality:

• Financial Economics: There is also Quantitative Finance.
• Corporate Finance/Business Economics: Corporate Finance/Business Economics is usually either really simple Economics, or horribly complex applied micro-macro-economic-o-metrics (and then some). Fire away and ask though, and we will see what happens.

#On-Topic

• Econometrics: Especially for theoretical questions, have a look at Cross-Validated.

• Software questions: Questions related to software used in economics and econometrics, are on-topic here.
• Literature/books requests
• Queries for Data: Queries for Data sets and data in general are on-topic here. You can also try the Open Data SE site.
• Homework/Self-study question: always a hot issue in SE sites, and always difficult to commit to a very specific policy. You may see your such question getting just hints, or quick answers, or very long educational answers, or simply being closed as "off-topic" -if the members of this community feel that you want them to do your homework for you. To avoid that, you have at least to present in the question what part of the question you do understand, and where specifically lies your problem.

I took Alecos' text, reorganized the structure, and tried to shorten it. Happy if you change the words, it was quickly written. Also, one might invert the order (On-topic first).

Welcome to Economics.SE, the free, community-driven Questions and Answers site for economics. Not all questions with some economic-financial content are on-topic here. Here is a differentiation.

Off-topic

• Personal finance: Personal matters of finance and investment are offtopic here. Have a go at Personal Finance & Money.
• Accounting: Accounting is a separate discipline, and there is no StackExchange site dedicated to that matter yet. You could propose one.
• Too broad questions: We are dealing with a scientific discipline here, and science works by initially narrowing its focus in order to be able to go deep. Do the same -narrow the focus of your question. In social sciences, very rarely do we have truly "universal laws", and Economics is no different.
• Opinion-requests: it is also very natural to want someone to evaluate, or to make a value-judgement on, something that preoccupies you: But questions like "Is communism better than capitalism? Is money a sin?" are off-topic here.Try to ask something that a member can answer using facts, studies, economic theory and reasoning -not moral/political/religious/philosophical values

#On-topic, but not perfectly suited The following topics belong to economics and are welcome here. However, there may be a different StackExchange community with a more narrow focus, where you might get an answer of higher quality:

• Financial Economics: There is also Quantitative Finance.
• Corporate Finance/Business Economics: Corporate Finance/Business Economics is usually either really simple Economics, or horribly complex applied micro-macro-economic-o-metrics (and then some). Fire away and ask though, and we will see what happens.

#On-Topic

• Econometrics: Especially for theoretical questions, have a look at Cross-Validated.

• Software questions: Questions related to software used in economics and econometrics, are on-topic here.
• Literature/books requests
• Queries for Data: Queries for Data sets and data in general are on-topic here. You can also try the Open Data SE site.
• Homework/Self-study question: always a hot issue in SE sites, and always difficult to commit to a very specific policy. You may see your such question getting just hints, or quick answers, or very long educational answers, or simply being closed as "off-topic" -if the members of this community feel that you want them to do your homework for you. To avoid that, you have at least to present in the question what part of the question you do understand, and where specifically lies your problem.

I took Alecos' text, reorganized the structure, and tried to shorten it. Happy if you change the words, it was quickly written. Also, one might invert the order (On-topic first).

Welcome to Economics.SE, the free, community-driven Questions and Answers site for economics. Not all questions with some economic-financial content are on-topic here. Here is a differentiation.

Off-topic

• Personal finance: Personal matters of finance and investment are offtopic here. Have a go at Personal Finance & Money.
• Accounting: Accounting is a separate discipline, and there is no StackExchange site dedicated to that matter yet. You could propose one.
• Too broad questions: We are dealing with a scientific discipline here, and science works by initially narrowing its focus in order to be able to go deep. Do the same -narrow the focus of your question. In social sciences, very rarely do we have truly "universal laws", and Economics is no different.
• Opinion-requests: it is also very natural to want someone to evaluate, or to make a value-judgement on, something that preoccupies you: But questions like "Is communism better than capitalism? Is money a sin?" are off-topic here.Try to ask something that a member can answer using facts, studies, economic theory and reasoning -not moral/political/religious/philosophical values

#On-topic, but not perfectly suited The following topics belong to economics and are welcome here. However, there may be a different StackExchange community with a more narrow focus, where you might get an answer of higher quality:

• Financial Economics: There is also Quantitative Finance.
• Corporate Finance/Business Economics: Corporate Finance/Business Economics is usually either really simple Economics, or horribly complex applied micro-macro-economic-o-metrics (and then some). Fire away and ask though, and we will see what happens.

#On-Topic

• Econometrics: Especially for theoretical questions, have a look at Cross-Validated.

• Software questions: Questions related to software used in economics and econometrics, are on-topic here.
• Literature/books requests
• Queries for Data: Queries for Data sets and data in general are on-topic here. You can also try the Open Data SE site.
• Homework/Self-study question: always a hot issue in SE sites, and always difficult to commit to a very specific policy. You may see your such question getting just hints, or quick answers, or very long educational answers, or simply being closed as "off-topic" -if the members of this community feel that you want them to do your homework for you. To avoid that, you have at least to present in the question what part of the question you do understand, and where specifically lies your problem.