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It's Identity-Crisis time
Three years ago, September 18 2013 I posted a question in Area 51 exploring whether a 2nd attempt to launch an economics.se seemed to have a chance to succeed. It wasn't a site proposal proper, just ...
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Does the site want questions on "everyday economics" about consumer markets?
My approach: questions about pricing, relative prices and the like are on topic here but it is my impression that they will rarely get an answer that matches the very narrow and specific level that ...
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Changing sub-title for our SE
The sub-title that I proposed has received 15 upvotes (and no downvotes) in the original thread. Don't these count towards a decision? Why a "new consensus" is needed? Because it has been 10 months ...
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Should we require software questions to be applied to economic problems?
How about:
Software questions: Questions on how to use software to address economics and econometrics problems are on-topic here.
Remarks:
Nowadays all sorts of software are used in economics so ...
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Policy on posting surveys to the site?
I would say no. If allowed, survey questions would probably outnumber other types of questions.
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Does the site want questions on "everyday economics" about consumer markets?
Of the one's we've received so far, they're pretty much all terrible questions.
In almost all cases, there's only one rudimentary economics concept involved - the crossing of supply and demand curves....
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Does the site want questions on "everyday economics" about consumer markets?
Somewhat following up on @Alecos's answer : I'll leave it to others to decide whether these kind of questions are on topic, but if they are, I think we should adopt a policy similar to the one we ...
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Does the site want questions on "everyday economics" about consumer markets?
I don't think these are on-topic here. We most likely don't have the knowledge of the particular product to say more than general economics insights.
Moreover, these aren't really "deep" questions, ...
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Can I ask about metodology employed by organizations that make reports of economic interest?
I believe this is on topic because it is a clear question regarding a query of economic related data. See the related help page for this site:
Queries for Data: Queries for Data sets and data in ...
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Policy on posting surveys to the site?
As denesp said, in general no. But if you did want to enquire further, then send an email to [email protected] and ask the staff.
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Where should I ask a given question, how and why is it vague what I am asking in said question?
Here's one reason why the [original, unedited] question is vague. One of the most useful mathematical topics for economics is multivariable calculus, eg when finding the optimum of a function ...
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Changing sub-title for our SE
Vote on whether you agree or disagree with the following: I prefer not changing the blurb to any of the other options and would prefer to keep it the same.
You are free to wait to vote on this one ...
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Changing sub-title for our SE
The blurb Alecos suggested:
"For those who study, teach, research, and apply economics and econometrics."
is one possible change we can make to it. I considered replacing "those" with "students and ...
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Interdisciplinary Questions Law and Economics
Hard to say, I find that the question is long and kind of rambling. If you can make it clearer and succinct, link to the necessary legal phrases and explain on what you mean by "should", e.g. what is ...
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Are Questions on Supply Chain Management on topic?
The first question is "business economics", in that it is Inventory management at its most applied version. It is something that needs a specialized consultant, so I would say it is essentially off-...
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Changing sub-title for our SE
Based on Alecos's answer I propose the new blurb
"Primarily for professionals and academics, but everyone is welcome - in principle."
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Creating a list to measure the site's coverage of subfields
JEL: E – Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
Tags: macroeconomics
Examples: (click on one of the tags above for more)
What are main methods for econometrics of Macroeconomics?
Unemployment and the ...
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