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all. I know several of us here are professional economists and/or PhD students. I am curious if anyone here has interest in participating in, what I think* would be, the first attempt at multi-...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...

The New Year quickly approaches, and the site is fairly mellow these holiday seasons. It gives one some time for reflection. (This is a long post, and if you want the nitty-gritty you can read just ...

Specifically I was wondering about this question. It is definitely economics related, but once one writes down some equations it seems more like a computer science problem.

I notices that most questions on the economics site get very few views, One large anomaly, is this question: Car prices haven't changed in 20 years, no inflation? I can only assume that this ...

I would like to ask about statistics on how many imported good and services have tariffs in US. I dont know why but I have the feeling this might be offtopic somehow. Would this question be off-topic?

Sometimes questions are deleted, like this here. When someone like me invests some work to answer such question, it is not nice that the answer isn't readable in the personal activity. Or are answers ...

An update from our previous check up on the health of the site. The important stuff, like % answered and answer ratio are still about the same. Questions per day is up, but perhaps that is due to ...

I just saw we have a liberalism tag. https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/liberalism Do we really need this? It does not seem to be on-topic for the site. If we agree that we don't ...

Just wanted to draw people's attention on "EconSpark", the AEA's new: https://www.aeaweb.org/economics-discussion-forum. Although there might be some overlap, I believe EconSpark and EconSE are ...

I received an e-mail from SE, titled "Please take the new Moderator Engagement survey". But this survey is to be completed by moderators only, as is evident from the questions in the "Background ...

Somebody asked: Can a company pay its employees what they are worth and make money at the same time? The question was voted down (not by me), and two participants asked the OP to edit the question to ...

I know this not a perfect question. But I think that math stack exchange works better than Econ stack exchange because more people on math stack exchange are helpful, gentle and wise and give more ...

This is a continuation of Homework questions with scans of notes/exam papers. Was I correct to approve the following edit, in which a user (not the OP) converts the scanned images into Mathjax? ...

As a follow up to the post made by my fellow moderator ubiquitous Homework questions with scans of notes/exam papers An additional stanza will be added to our site's homework policy. however some ...

We have a user who is asking lots of questions like Cournot competition question or Consumer theory with lump sum fee I don't like them (the questions)!They are homework questions that nominally ...

I was just presented with a suggested edit to my $\LaTeX$ code, but the preview was not shown. Thus, it was not easy for me to check that the code would render properly and what it would look like (...

While often called the dismal science, economics is a social science at the end of the day. Social sciences don't have absolute truths and thus require debate and discussion. I thus feel that by not ...

What's the community's take on users with multiple accounts? The case I have in mind concerns a user (ID1/ID2/ID3) who frequently asks homework-type questions (some with shown effort, others without)...

Over the post few weeks there have been several "Is this correct?" questions. It seems like this is a weird fit for SE, but on the general meta (based on Stackoverflow context) they seem to encourage ...

I'm referring to what are the essential aspects of the Keynes revolution in economic theory are? The question is asked on 2018-04-30 14:58:50 and the OP supplied an answer to it less than three ...

A strange statistic on the site activity is being posted. Why is this the case? On the main site:

In an attempt to put together something to represent the site I'd like to propose putting together a collection of working papers and articles written by regular contributors of the site. I'd like ...

Just for your entertainment: There is a guy, George Duckett, who webscraped most SE sites and "published" the content into "books". Now he also has one for Economics, and if you have answered some ...

There is an answer on the main site which purports to portray the sitting American president as a bit of a simpleton (which I may or may not agree with). The problem is that while doing this the ...

I recently asked two questions for which I would like to receive multiple answers: What are some results in Economics that are both a consensus and far from common sense? What are some important ...

So I'm working through the textbook " Introducing Advanced Macroeconomics: Growth and Business Cycles" by Sorrenson. I have noticed that it's very equation and math heavy, while I do enjoy maths, it ...

I am scared to put my money in a bank in my country because it is in debt and I'm afraid the bank won't be able to preserve it in the future, I want to ask whether it would be safe and what would be ...

I noticed there are some questions that are more specifically in the category of supply chain management floating around the site. Namely: How to proceed with safety stock calculation when demand is ...

An answer by @Ubiquitous reminded me of a past discussion 3 years ago about using the JEL classification system for tagging in economics.se I am bringing the issue up once more, and I make the ...

In this question, the OP points out that we have no tag for Family Economics, which can reasonably be claimed to be a sub-field of economics (see here). My only doubt about having such a tag is ...

How should we deal with questions from topics that overlaps with other stack exchange sites? Although in many cases it's clear that a question doesn't belong on one site and definitely belongs on ...

In the review queue for low quality answers I came across this answer. The answer is pretty bad in my opinion, it lacks rigour, etc. Yet it is an attempt to answer the question, not spam or vandalism. ...

We've been getting alot of questions regarding marxist schools of thought. If these questions were regarding the mathematics and empirics that exists in some neomarxian models such as the Feldman ...

The site has a user who has very high review stats in several queues. And his usual review answers are "Looks OK", "Leave Open", "Repoen", etc. https://economics.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/...

Recent advances in information technology might influence the actuarial science. Would be question from this interdisciplinary domain be on topic here? Example: What are actuarial implications of ...

I've been noticing activities of "an anonymous user" on the site of late. See the page of suggested edits by anonymous user(s). In the following case, it was an edit to a question. The comment to ...

I was looking for a proof of the von Neumann Morgenstern Theorem (That the axioms lead to a unique utility function which is linear in probability). The best thing I could find was a sketch of the ...

Sometimes an unclear question is posted. You have an inkling what the OP means, or you think you do. Some people in this case answer their interpretation of the question. I think this is bad practice, ...

Hey guys after being given the green light on creating a Twitter Account I took initiative and i made it. Check it out, follow it and tell your friends! https://twitter.com/EconomicsSE

So I've been looking at the Economics SE Twitter account and am wondering who runs it and is it possible to reactivate it? The pros of having a network Twitter account would be: Promotion of site ...

Based on this suggestion, I'm taking initiative for proposing the first Economics.Se open source Journal. The standards for entry are undetermined, but right now I just want to see if there is ...

Some questions are hard to be classified as homework, but they are nevertheless very basic. Such as this one and this one. For these questions, it's hard to urge the OP to "show more effort", since ...

Based on this question, I've decided to ask mine. So, what would be the pros and cons of creating a EconOverflow? I ask this, but I assume that most who would commit to the overflow, would abide ...

I dont know if this is a rant so please downvote/vote to close if need be. This week I actively approached a couple of professors and working economists I know and told them about the site. Most of ...

Back in May-Aug 2015, we had weekly visits around $4,000$ per week, and declining votes that had reached below $200$ per week. At September 2016 visits for the pat-12-months were at around $10,000$ ...

I just want to know how does the site want to approach self destructive users? A self destructive user in this context is a user who has contributed to the site and now wishes to delete their ...

I am struggling to understand why the question "Is a small business owner without employees a capitalist?" is on-topic. Yes, it is about a topic related to the economy (not economics though) and the ...

Im just wondering. Why is Econ SE still in beta in-spite of having a strong committed community? What is stopping us from progressing to the next stage of site development?

Well, after this question by Alecos, I was left wondering if it wouldn't be nice to promote this type of questions? Maybe in a blog associated with this community. What do you think?