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A CALL TO ECONOMICS AUTHORS AND EDITORS

We need much more activity on CZ with social science, and especially economics articles. A new author here, Nick Gardner, has made a heroic start with some core Economics articles. We transferred the text from the old article Economics to a new article History of economic thought which now requires massive editing to put it in shape. There are also some other articles which need attention. I propose listing articles into several categories, to guide us through the workload.

Please add any articles you would like to nominate for these groupings [and feel free to start work on them too!]

Core economics articles which are completely MISSING

• International economics
• Welfare economics
• Comparative advantage
• Economy of scale
• Balance of payments
• Terms of trade
• Externalities
• Elasticity
• Markets
• Supply
• Demand
• GNP or GDP
• Central Bank
• Money supply

Core economics articles which are stubs or low quality

• Factors of production
• GDP deflator
• Gross domestic product

Core economics articles which are good but need development to reach approval standard

• Economics
• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics

Economics articles which seem redundant but whose content may be useful for other articles

Economics subdisciplines

Economics articles which appear to be finished, of very high quality, and may be ready for formal Editor approval

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Below, I also paste a message from Nick, about his recent edits on some core economics articles. We hope that we can put together a really good economics coverage on CZ.--Martin Baldwin-Edwards 20:10, 23 September 2007 (CDT)

New articles

I have made a tentative start at writing new articles on Economics, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics.

I have aimed them at the ordinary reader seeking a broad appreciation of what it's about rather than at students of economics looking for help with their essays. I leave the task of meeting students' needs to those of you that are in the teaching profession. I suggest putting that material in a separate article titled (perhaps) " Economic Theory"

Please let me have your comments and criticisms.

Nick Gardner 15:33, 23 September 2007 (CDT)

Suggestions please!

Subject to comments, I have finished with Economics and nearly finished with Macroeconomics. I should appreciate some fellow-economists' comments before I turn to other things. Is anybody interested?

Nick Gardner 07:32, 28 September 2007 (CDT)

Possible new articles

In the course of drafting the "gateway" articles on economics, microeconomics and macroeconomics, I have created links to the following articles, nearly all of which are at present empty. Some of the new articles would, no doubt, link to further articles.

(I have assumed that the list below covers the ground set out in Martin Baldwin-Edwards message above, but I accept that I may be mistaken about that.)

Taking that into account, I should value comments on whether the list is exhaustive, whether any items are superfluous and whether any should be combined or renamed.

• Supply and Demand
• Welfare Economics
• International Economics
• Neoclassical Economics
• Monetary Economics
• Endogenous Growth Theory
• Competition
• Competition Policy
• Economic Efficiency
• General Equilibrium
• Cost/benefit Analysis
• The Budgetary "Golden Rule"
• Public Goods
• Economic models
• Social Choice theory
• Sustainability
• The Precautionary Principle
• Patent Law
• The Austrian School

Thanks for this list [and all your work!], Nick. This list of non-existing articles should be combined with the list I made above, and also included in the CZ:Core articles page CZ:Core_Articles. I don't know if you have been there, but it is an attempt to get things moving on CZ. Feel free to amend it, otherwise I will add to the list from your new list above, when I have some free time. --Martin Baldwin-Edwards 06:46, 13 October 2007 (CDT)

Nick Gardner 05:34, 13 October 2007 (CDT)

Proposed Core Articles

I have amended the CZ: core articles page by substituting for the existing list a combination of the articles mentioned above.

The revised list is as follows. (The allocation of points is tentative.)

Nick Gardner 04:19, 18 October 2007 (CDT)

(10) = worth this number of points   * = external, to replace or rewrite   ** = micro-stub

HIGH PRIORITY Business economics (10) Comparative advantage (10) Competition (10) Economic efficiency (5) Financial economics (5) International economics (10) Public goods (5) Supply and demand (10) Elasticity (5) Theory of the firm (5) Welfare economics (10)

LOWER PRIORITY Austrian School (5) Balance of payments (2) Budget deficit (2) Competition policy (5) Economies of scale (2) Elasticity (2) Endogenous growth (2) Externalities (2) General equilibrium (2) GNP or GDP (2) Monetary economics (5) Money supply (2) Neolassical economics (5) Rational expectations (2) Terms of trade (2)

LOWEST PRIORITY Central bank (2) Economic history (2) Economic models (2) Markets (2) Precautionary principle (2) Sustainability (2)

Already-written core articles in this workgroup

(Core Article points not available for these articles.)

Start listing already-existing core articles here Economics Microeconomics Macroeconomics History of economic thought

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