Questions tagged [political]
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Single Peaked Preferences and Condorcet Cycles [closed]
How can you prove the theorem that Single peaked preferences imply that there are no Condorcet cycles
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What would happen if a country defaulted on its public debt?
Could someone explain in full detail to someone that does not understand much what would happen if a country refused to pay its pubic debt?
Someone told me if this happens banks would fall and ...
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Does the political claim “will create X jobs” have an economic definition?
I often see claims that new (generally government) projects will "create n jobs".
For example, this 2013 claim from the Economic Development Blog about the 2020 Olympic Games:
The Olympic Games ...
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Use of DSGE models for the day-to-day government policy decisions? If no - then what are obstacles?
Are DSGE models used for the day-to-day government policy estimation and optimization? E.g. can DSGE model be used for estimation of the return of additional investments in education and how those ...
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How should the general public evaluate economic arguments?
This is a follow-up question to Why do economists disagree so much?
I know little about economics - just enough to know that it's a complex field I don't understand. However I see economic arguments ...
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If 1% of the solar energy of the Sahara can power the entire world, why isn't it happening?
There is an article on Forbes where Mehran Moalem, UC Berkeley professor, argues:
1.2% of the Sahara desert is sufficient to cover all of the energy needs of the world in solar energy. [...] The ...
