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Criticism of Math in Economics

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Should selling price depend on product quality or on work to produce the product if both not in positive correlation?

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Do companies have non compete agreements between each other?

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Criticism of Math in Economics

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Does a store suffering increased theft generally cause higher prices?

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Why are real median household incomes stagnant?

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Why teach Arrow's impossibility theorem?

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Why is pre-specification of punishment order necessary to manipulate compliance?

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What is the difference between contract theory and mechanism design?

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Are there historical cases of country A printing the currency of country B for the main purpose of economic warfare?

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What precisely is scarcity?

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How to show that a homothetic utility function has demand functions which are linear in income

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Why companies choose to make zero economic profits in the long-term when it can maximize it instead? Why does Apple have large profit margins?

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Elasticity of demand equals -1 but income decreases!

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Why is 10% the necessary upper bound for a negative interest rate?

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The Printing of Money for Paying Debt

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Fixed cost of a firm

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Why don't profitable firms use previous profits to offset current loss

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What are the causes of negative real interest rates?

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Correlated equilibrium intution

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Real Life Examples of Optimization in Economics

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How are ties broken in a second price sealed bid auction?

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Which capital accumulation is right? $K_t = (1-\delta)K_{t-1} +I_t$ or $K_t = (1-\delta)K_{t-1}+I_{t-1}$?

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What is the point of silent auctions?

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Will a Guaranteed minimum income not eventually just be crowded out by inflation?

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Can a closed economy flourish?

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Term for fraction of economic value earned?

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Do the three ways of measuring producer’s surplus give the same result?

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Elasticity and logarithms

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Why are Portuguese migrating out of Portugal?

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Criticism of Math in Economics

Should selling price depend on product quality or on work to produce the product if both not in positive correlation?

Do companies have non compete agreements between each other?

Criticism of Math in Economics

Does a store suffering increased theft generally cause higher prices?

Why are real median household incomes stagnant?

Why teach Arrow's impossibility theorem?

Why is pre-specification of punishment order necessary to manipulate compliance?

What is the difference between contract theory and mechanism design?

Are there historical cases of country A printing the currency of country B for the main purpose of economic warfare?

What precisely is scarcity?

How to show that a homothetic utility function has demand functions which are linear in income

Why companies choose to make zero economic profits in the long-term when it can maximize it instead? Why does Apple have large profit margins?

Elasticity of demand equals -1 but income decreases!

Why is 10% the necessary upper bound for a negative interest rate?

The Printing of Money for Paying Debt

Fixed cost of a firm

Why don't profitable firms use previous profits to offset current loss

What are the causes of negative real interest rates?

Correlated equilibrium intution

Real Life Examples of Optimization in Economics

How are ties broken in a second price sealed bid auction?

Which capital accumulation is right? $K_t = (1-\delta)K_{t-1} +I_t$ or $K_t = (1-\delta)K_{t-1}+I_{t-1}$?

What is the point of silent auctions?

Will a Guaranteed minimum income not eventually just be crowded out by inflation?

Can a closed economy flourish?

Term for fraction of economic value earned?

Do the three ways of measuring producer’s surplus give the same result?

Elasticity and logarithms

Why are Portuguese migrating out of Portugal?