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added by user63171 Aug 24 '12 at 17:28

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added by EnergyNumbers Aug 19 '12 at 16:35

	Very interesting question, +1. – Chris Mar 1 at 14:12
	in "You Are Not a Gadget" ". Lanier further argues that the open source approach has destroyed opportunities for the middle class to finance content creation, and results in the concentration of wealth in a few individuals" his one of very few prominent IT people which say this – Qbik Mar 5 at 23:04

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added by EnergyNumbers Aug 19 '12 at 16:35

excellent question. Yet it can have multiple causes so its gong to be hard to answer – Xitcod13 Dec 6 '12 at 7:19

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added by MCP_infiltrator Jul 17 '12 at 20:54

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added by EnergyNumbers Aug 19 '12 at 16:34

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added by Merbs Nov 16 '12 at 14:16

+1, although being a strategic voter myself, I'd save my votes for other good questions that have not passed the 10-vote mark ;) – Kevin C Apr 14 at 6:57

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added by Xitcod13 Dec 6 '12 at 7:15

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added by Jeremy Oct 10 '12 at 8:30

People are more than data points and you can never truly model explicitly the will to survive – MCP_infiltrator Apr 30 at 12:36

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added by Jeremy Oct 10 '12 at 8:14

	Vague... totally depends on the mathematician's interests. – Camil Staps Apr 11 at 18:29
	@Camil Staps Well yes, I think it is assumed that more detail would be given in the body of the question. – Jeremy Apr 11 at 18:39
	Okay then, you got my upvote :) – Camil Staps Apr 11 at 18:40

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added by Manishearth Mar 1 at 15:53

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added by Merbs Nov 16 '12 at 23:34

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added by Xitcod13 Dec 6 '12 at 7:17

	Economy of the employee, economy of the employer, or macro-economy? – gerrit Dec 10 '12 at 17:46
	macro-economy .. – Xitcod13 Dec 11 '12 at 2:42
	How would a model answer to this question look? To me it seems that the only honest answer is ``it depends" which is followed by a review of the literature on the effects of the minimum wage. – igor Apr 14 at 9:58
	plus if you take an economics class. The basic assumption is everything else kept constant. Taking that into consideration you cannot say "it depends" – Xitcod13 May 2 at 0:25
	To clarify igor's point, you say "it depends" and then explain what considerations you have in mind, each time limiting the scope of your claims by saying "everything else equal". – Frank May 15 at 23:45

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added by gerrit Dec 10 '12 at 17:23

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added by Tong Zhang Mar 29 at 14:15

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added by EnergyNumbers Aug 19 '12 at 16:35

	What do you mean by "yield curve"? – Kevin C Apr 14 at 8:31
	@KevinC from investopedia: "A line that plots the interest rates, at a set point in time, of bonds having equal credit quality, but differing maturity dates" – EnergyNumbers Apr 30 at 13:38

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added by DReispt Nov 23 '12 at 16:27

The Eurozone is going through an economic crisis, not the Euro. – Joe Z. Feb 24 at 19:04

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added by David Englund Feb 9 at 15:23

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added by Chris Mar 5 at 4:06

Note my question is different from: "What are the effects of using interest rates to control inflation, as done in New Zealand?", which asks about the effects of this method, rather than how this method actually works. – Chris Mar 5 at 4:08

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added by Kevin C Apr 14 at 6:46

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added by igor Apr 14 at 10:09

If this were ever asked, it would probably be for the asker's homework... I don't know if that's a bad thing. – Frank May 15 at 23:34

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added by user63161 Aug 24 '12 at 12:28

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added by EnergyNumbers Aug 19 '12 at 16:34

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added by Highly Irregular Nov 2 '12 at 8:13

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added by swapnil Nov 30 '12 at 17:10

	and why do they call it quantitative easing and not money printing or inflation. Its a new name for same trick. I think it has to do more with politics than economics. – Xitcod13 Dec 6 '12 at 7:24
	did you edit this question? it seems to me that it makes a very big assumption which might not be true. – Xitcod13 Apr 21 at 3:56

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added by Manishearth Mar 1 at 15:50

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added by Manishearth Mar 1 at 15:52

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added by Kevin C Apr 14 at 8:35

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added by Kevin C May 10 at 16:42

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added by Jeremy Oct 10 '12 at 8:10

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added by Jeremy Oct 10 '12 at 8:21

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added by gerrit Dec 10 '12 at 17:22

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added by gerrit Dec 10 '12 at 17:25

	It's a big vague question, with a questionable premise. If you can find a notable claim of someone significant saying "we need perpetual, exponential economic growth?", it might be worth asking about it on skeptics.se – EnergyNumbers Mar 6 at 21:18
	@EnergyNumbers Well, implicitly — when the economy doesn't grow, politicians, economists, and others, speak of economic "crisis". – gerrit Mar 9 at 15:14

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added by gerrit Dec 10 '12 at 17:26

Probably too vague to be answerable, and likely to attract all sorts of ... fringe ideas – EnergyNumbers Mar 6 at 21:15

@EnergyNumbers, the question as stated is a bit short, and vague. I think the concept behind the question is very interesting, and would be ok if the question is made to be more specific. (e.g. a specific country etc.) – Chris Mar 8 at 0:09

@Chris - I think it's better phrased as just asking about the differences between M0-M4, which allows a clearer answer and could keep the cranks at bay. – EnergyNumbers Mar 8 at 8:49

Yeah I'll agree with that. – Chris Mar 8 at 8:57

In what way is this question vague? I'm a lay when it comes to economics, but it appears like a very concrete question to me. Perhaps it's too broad to be answerable in a few paragraphs, that I don't know. But I don't get why it would be vague. – gerrit Mar 8 at 10:31

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added by Scott Kilpatrick Jan 20 at 23:01

	Marxian economics as a whole is almost completely disregarded as irrelevant in modern economics. – John Bensin May 1 at 16:35
	I think it's an okay question, but "What is the contemporary take on" invites bad answers, I think. Maybe something more like "What does X have to say about Y?" – Frank May 15 at 23:41