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The tag is very popular, but I feel it is not precise enough. Should we rename it "economic-growth", as that is what it currently stands for?

(tag excerpt reads "An increase over time in the quantity of goods and services produced within an economy.")

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  • $\begingroup$ Do you have a view of the tags growth-theory, endogenous-growth, and balanced-growth? $\endgroup$
    – Ubiquitous
    Aug 21, 2017 at 16:58
  • $\begingroup$ @Ubiquitous Well, economic-growth gives room for empirical questions, which growth-theory does not. They could in principle be merged (the latter has just 29 questions), but it feels not totally necessary. I think now one would mistake "growth-theory" by anything but economic growth theory. But growth in itself is too imprecise. There is just no need for super short tags. The other tags two seem fine as stand-alone to me, as they are quite a sub-field between the growth literature. $\endgroup$
    – luchonacho
    Aug 21, 2017 at 17:06

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Another option is to merge and into a new . As in my comment to Aleco's answer, I think the latter tag would be friendly to both theory and empirical questions.

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  • $\begingroup$ I think this is a good suggestion. Let's wait a day or two to see if any macro guys show up here to say otherwise and then do it. $\endgroup$
    – Ubiquitous
    Aug 24, 2017 at 11:23
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    $\begingroup$ Update: I have implemented this suggestion. $\endgroup$
    – Ubiquitous
    Aug 25, 2017 at 18:35
  • $\begingroup$ @Ubiquitous Great. Thanks. Looks good! $\endgroup$
    – luchonacho
    Aug 25, 2017 at 18:55
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Users are tag consumers, and they will go for the easiest. And I totally aggree that "growth" is a useless tag, being very general.

My proposal, however tedious (but we need to get serious about tagging): re-tag all 120 questions tagged with "growth" into one of the three other related tags, and then purge the "growth" tag.

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    $\begingroup$ The only problem with this approach is that you are putting empirical questions into the growth-theory tag. which is misleading. Why not instead remove the growth-theory tag and merge it with growth tag into economic-growth? $\endgroup$
    – luchonacho
    Aug 23, 2017 at 12:57
  • $\begingroup$ @LUCHONACHO this is also a valid approach. $\endgroup$
    – Alecos Papadopoulos
    Aug 23, 2017 at 12:59

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