Re: [Wikimedia-l] 'Periodic Table of Economics': Mapping the Global Economy

2013-06-18 Thread Alex Peek
Thank you I will set that up On 18 June 2013 20:40, David Cuenca wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Alex Peek wrote: > > > [...] > > These 'Economy of X' are designed for laypersons to see the economic > > reality of the world. > > > So it could be considered a set of articles for > h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 'Periodic Table of Economics': Mapping the Global Economy

2013-06-18 Thread David Cuenca
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Alex Peek wrote: > [...] > These 'Economy of X' are designed for laypersons to see the economic > reality of the world. So it could be considered a set of articles for http://simple.wikipedia.org? Cheers, Micru ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 'Periodic Table of Economics': Mapping the Global Economy

2013-06-18 Thread Alex Peek
I want to clarify that I am not a professional economist. I am a financial economics major at Western Washington University. These 'Economy of X' are designed for laypersons to see the economic reality of the world. I believe if the public were more informed on economics, we would better chance s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 'Periodic Table of Economics': Mapping the Global Economy

2013-06-18 Thread Nathan
Hi Alex, just curious - since you refer to yourself as an economist, what institution(s) are you affiliated with? And can you explain how writing "Economy of X" articles, no matter how detailed, will solve the problem of uneven resource distribution around the world? On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:13

[Wikimedia-l] 'Periodic Table of Economics': Mapping the Global Economy

2013-06-18 Thread Alex Peek
Project Home page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Economic_Map The goal of my project is create the *periodic table* for economics readable to laypersons. To my knowledge, no other economist has attempted to make a 'periodic table' for economics. I am using Wikipedia as a platform for this