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Knowing when a question is more political than economic, in my opinion, is when the question cannot directly fit into one of these 6 (or 7) areas. Cosumers Firms Goverment policy related to consumer …

In terms of developing a method to deal with homework questions I suggest that we should answer a few of them, and then when we see the same or similar question come up again we simply redirect the qu …

I got a response from the SE team member animuson it doesnt seem like its an issue. His books get brought up several times a year, but there is nothing inherently wrong with them. Our license does no …

what is the site's policy on posting original economic research or ideas that one would like to be reviewed on SE? is this the appropriate forum for posting such work?

Im interested in improving my answering methods for this site. For the most part I'm sourcing most of my answers either from Wikipedia or Investopedia, sometimes even just copying and pasting and wou …

I saw the question "Is www.multpl.com reliable?" and im wondering if it is on topic for the site? Should we evaluate data quality is that opinionated?

I'd like to add part HRSE's answer to Are monotonic and continuous preferences necessarily rational? to my question of What is a rational consumer? The reason why I'm asking, is due to potential rep …

Im currently concidering deleting the question Testing Roberts's Law: data request on CEO pay and company characteristics. The reason why is because I use a definition of firm size which comes from …

As a mod on this site, I've gotten into trouble from the community for making decisions on my own. However, I'm surprised to see that some users choose to use this site as a ranting place and have be …

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 t …

Im pretty open to the idea, however I don't think it makes sense to start an overflow site while this one is still in beta. I'd say we wait till we get out of beta before we do that.

As suggested by denesp previously in a flag. I suggest that we modify our homework policy to be that the question must be copied down in a markdown form. If our site's objective is to help make infor …

Strictly speaking based on our current policy we just require that effort be typed up and marked down properly. The gains that come with searchability should follow.

Im an Econ PhD candidate. My research interests are in consumer behaviour and demand system estimation. I envision econ overflow being a much more demanding site source wise where people can post re …

I did not comment on your post, but It was unclear what the question was and the context of inclusion of the article you found. It currently seems like a promotion of another websites content which th …