Category talk:Economists

message: Don't you think that the names should be categorised by SURNAME, not FIRST NAME?
--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:19, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

message: The number of economists is too much to lump them all into the "Economists" category.  A lot have been classified by nationality, but a lot haven't.  Is the goal to put them all into a nationality category?  What about Daron Acemoglu, for example—is he a Turkish economist or an American economist?  Furthermore, I can see :Category:American economists needing to be broken into subcategories itself.  It might make more sense to classify them by specialty, but that will involve a lot more judgment calls.  Any thoughts?  I am willing to do the work of sorting out these entries, but wonder if anyone has any thoughts first.  Afelton 14:36, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
:I have created :Category:Classical economists as a start, but in doing this I noticed that many people (e.g. David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill were only listed as "British" or "English" economists respectively - meaning that they did not appear on Category:Economists (I have now added them to the category). This (putting someone in a subcategory but not the main category) often happens and isn't helpful. May I suggest (on the subject of overcrowding) that someone creates a system that has a Table of Contents by letter (like in List of political parties) so that it is easier to navigate. Tamino 07:49, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subcategories 

message: I think more important than an economists nationality is their area of contribution and philosophical alignment with perhaps contending but widely accepted schools of thought.
Here are some suggestions for categories:
Keynesians,
Anti-Keynesians,
Architects of the Capital Asset Pricing Model,
Behavioral Economists,
International Trade Specialists,
Evolutionary Economists,
"Theoretical" Economists -- developers of game theory, for instance.
:Sounds good, although I'm sure there will be arguments about who belongs in what category!  That's fine, though, and I think much more useful information than nationality.  Afelton 19:33, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. National categories can stay but "area" categories would certainly be useful (see my post above in Subcategories). Tamino 07:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  badly needed revision 

message: (Please expand this list!)
*Microeconomists
*Game theorists
*Business theorists
*Labor economists
*Demographic economists
*Health economists
*Public economists
*Environmental economists
*Financial economists
*Macroeconomists
*Monetary economists
*International economists 
:*Trade economists
:*International finance economists
*Development economists
*Growth economists
*Econometricians
:*Time series econometricians
:*Microeconometricians
In order to avoid making lists too deep, or too mutually exclusive, I am proposing to treat most fields as areas of research in their own right, instead of treating them as subcategories of other categories. --Rinconsoleao (talk) 12:08, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed subcategory: 'Economists by area of research'

message: (Please expand this list!)
*Classical economists
*Neoclassical economists
:*New classical macroeconomists
:*Supply-side economists
*Keynesians
:*New Keynesian macroeconomists
*Monetarists
*Austrian School economists
*Feminist economists
*Marxist economists
*Heterodox economists
Unsigned categories listed above are my proposals. Please sign if you propose extra categories. --Rinconsoleao (talk) 11:49, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed subcategory: 'Economists by school of thought'

message: For Wikipedia experts: If we include 'Game theorists' as a subcategory of 'Economists by area of research', would it still be possible to list them as a subcategory of 'Mathematicians', etc.? --Rinconsoleao (talk) 12:11, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Though I'm no WP expertAdamSmithee (talk) 13:35, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about subcategories 

message: Does anyone know how to do that? --Rinconsoleao 18:55, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can't be done with current software; there was recent discussion about changing this.  -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 18:22, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subcategories should all be listed on the first page!