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Move the Economics forum to 'soc'?

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  • 13-09-2007 2:08pm
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    Ekancone
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    Hi, having finally found where the economics forum in the 'personal' section of 'biz', i am requesting to have the forum moved to the 'soc', erm, area...

    The reason i believed that there was no economics forum was because i had assumed that it would be listed with humanities. Economics is the science of human behaviour and so i believe that its place is with humanities. Looking at the forum now its seems to be a bit of a graveyard and i think this is due to its location being so hidden.

    I hope you consider my request.
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    Ruu_Old
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    Moving over to Feedback.


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    smashey
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    daithifleming wrote:
    The reason i believed that there was no economics forum was because i had assumed that it would be listed with humanities. Economics is the science of human behaviour and so i believe that its place is with humanities.
    Economics may be the "science of human nature" but in my opinion humanities would be the wrong place for it.


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    Ekancone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Ekancone


    smashey wrote:
    Economics may be the "science of human nature" but in my opinion humanities would be the wrong place for it.

    What about under 'soc'? What is your definition of humanities?


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    smashey
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    We're not looking to define humanities here.

    Maybe a separate sub-forum of business would make it easier to find.


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    Time Magazine
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    The mods of Economics would like this, btw. It's a social science. Business is more of a sub-category of economics rather than the other way around, since economics deals with wayyy more than business. View, for example, The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names!


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    Ekancone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Ekancone


    Ibid wrote:
    The mods of Economics would like this, btw. It's a social science. Business is more of a sub-category of economics rather than the other way around, since economics deals with wayyy more than business. View, for example, The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names!

    Exactly.


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    smashey
    Registered Users Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    Yeah, but biz is a pretty well defined category here. If I was looking for economics here, my first stop would be biz.


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    Ekancone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Ekancone


    smashey wrote:
    Yeah, but biz is a pretty well defined category here. If I was looking for economics here, my first stop would be biz.

    But business is only a part of Economics, if anything business should be listed under Economics.


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    smashey
    Registered Users Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    daithifleming wrote:
    But business is only a part of Economics, if anything business should be listed under Economics.
    I know that. What I'm saying is that we have well recognised categories here and maybe economics would be better suited as a stand alone sub-forum of the business category. This would stop any renaming of categories. Not that the admins couldn't do so if they wanted to.


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    Ekancone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Ekancone


    smashey wrote:
    I know that. What I'm saying is that we have well recognised categories here and maybe economics would be better suited as a stand alone sub-forum of the business category. This would stop any renaming of categories. Not that the admins couldn't do so if they wanted to.


    Yeah, thats not a bad idea there.


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    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    smashey wrote:
    Yeah, but biz is a pretty well defined category here. If I was looking for economics here, my first stop would be biz.

    I disagree, I wouldn't even think of looking in biz for it and especially not under "personal". I know what you are saying but economics no more falls under the biz category as it does the science category, despite psychology (another social science) and archaeology being there.

    I don't see a clear answer but I imagine it's not intuitive for people to look under Biz - Personal for Economics.


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