RFC: I Love Economics

Make it so.

go!

I would be interested. Shouldn't this be on modreq though?

'sinking beneath the waves' indicates inadequate demand, no?

I will go to modreq in good time, but I thought I would float the idea where everyone can see it.

i would read it

"sink"
"float"

it's economics all right

yes.

We can just rename Cape of Good Hope. That shit bombed.

I kind of oppose this really, it impacts on politics and other aspects of life so much and the Shitbin threads on ILE have been really good. Don't think there are really enough Economics and Finance threads to require their own board and it would slow to a crawl pretty quickly.

I used to be of that view about sub boards but I like how ILTRMB has developed from the ILTRMB thread.

My other reservation is that things like 'the state of the US economy' are really big issues that huge numbers of posters will have opinions on/experience of. On ILE everyone can and will chip in, I suspect not enough will look at I Love Economics to make it worth ghettoising that kind of discussion to a sub-board.

I'd be anti I Love Politics for the same reason.

this new board would make john maynard keynes very happy:

http://www.liberalhistory.org.uk/uploads/keynes.jpg

in other words -- YES

Yeah, I'm kind of leaning anti-board on this for reasons noted above.

We can just rename Cape of Good Hope. That shit bombed.

Oh my. I hadn't even seen that. Oh my.

im with matt dc on this, if this became a board it'd become a 2-posts-per-day ghetto eventually. the threads on here are more than good enough.

I think we should just work at keeping them in New Answers.

You can recruit posters from ITR for that; they're good at bumping threads.

Yeah, I have an interest in threads like this, but they do tend to get lost in the shuffle. If they were consistently bumped and/or easy to find (read: logically titled), I don't see the need for a separate board.

Why not just make this a rolling Economics thread, and then people can pull out stuff that's interesting for its own thread?

In other news, I have an exam in Development Economics in 1 hour and 53 minutes, so if anyone has anything useful to tell me about the evolution of measures of development and the Human Development Index, different perspectives on the role of the sate, or the impact of foreign direct investment on development, go for it.

start a board because there aren't enough posts on the threads that exist?

I think the point is that economics threads are much slower burning and tend to get lost in the ILE scrum. ILTRMB is a good example of rolling threads expanding into their own space.

It's a little late for this, but can someone explain growth regressions?

i fi could do that, then i wouldn't have this hairline ithangyew.

boom tish

We can just rename Cape of Good Hope. That shit bombed.

-- The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:49 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

it'd be a good way to keep the discussion to the same couple of posters if that's what you're after

we'd have no interesting threads on ILE if we hoiked all the politics and economics threads to their own thread. please dont.

i don't think this is a good idea. will be like i love film.

The shitbin threads haven't been lost in the scrum at all, dunno about any others but I think in those cases the thread starter should at least be able to keep discussion ticking over for a day or so. We still need a longer New Answers page really.

still don't understand how people don't get the 'everything' part of 'i love everything'

if a thread is sinking, you only need to revive it.

No chance of bringing back thread categories?

if a thread is sinking, you only need to revive it.

-- banriquit, Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:57 (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

That's the kind of petty childish revivalist bullshit that Ed's trying to get off of ILx, though.

http://prayerfoundation.org/books/book_r169.jpg

Just bookmark the fucker and then write interesting stuff in it when it occurs to you. Easy solution.

I forgot Ed was in favour of locking all old threads.

Can we have an Ask Ed board instead?

I'd hit it.

As you may have noticed am am staring this as a virtual board within ILE by starting threads with titles beginning with [ILEcon], join me.

I think that's a good approach, Ed.