Your economic background

**~~JayHawk357~~** · May 07, 2009, 02:24 PM

It seems alot of people here have economic backgrounds. So what is your background and persuasion?

I do not have an economic background in the traditional sense beyond my own readings of Keynes, Marx & Engels, Malthus and Mill. My own persuasion is that of socialism because I feel the markets looking only for profits have created an unhealthy environment of collaboration and collusion that is abondoning the little guy. A government seems to fix that because they are reliant on our vote.

**Panzerbear** · May 07, 2009, 02:52 PM

Bachelor of Science in Economics and currently working on my MBA.

leaning towards Austrian School (hardcore libertarianism).

**JP226** · May 07, 2009, 03:37 PM

In undergrad I did both the theoretical and applied versions of an econ degree and a math minor then went on to get a graduate degree. I'll probably go back to finish up the math degree one of these days soon.

**André Masséna** · May 07, 2009, 03:52 PM

I took a class or two.

I hate taxes.

**War&Politics** · May 07, 2009, 03:57 PM

I have a degree in Economics.

**BNS** · May 07, 2009, 04:06 PM

None besides a crap high school economics course. I've grown to favor the Austrian school of economics.

**JP226** · May 07, 2009, 04:19 PM

where do you got all your info from BNS?

**BNS** · May 07, 2009, 04:28 PM

Self taught. From online articles, online videos, and books. I became interested in politics a couple of months ago and decided I should become well read in economics if my political convictions were to be valid. I would have never imagined it would lead me to support libertarianism and in fact I didn't even know the term a year ago. I'm glad that economics and the interest in liberty that came with it steered me away from becoming your typical ignorant lefty liberal youth.

**JP226** · May 07, 2009, 04:32 PM

http://rfe.org/

http://thomas.loc.gov/

Here's two good sites I use ALOT for work. The first one is an all in one. Really good for data and stats although it's raw. It also has teaching resources, blogs, dictionaries, everything you'd really need. The second one is access to all US bills proposed and passed, has impact studies that go along with them, good summaries and actual text if you are brave enough to venture that far and see why nothing ever good comes out of DC. Should help you out alot.

**BNS** · May 07, 2009, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by JP226

http://rfe.org/

http://thomas.loc.gov/

Here's two good sites I use ALOT for work. The first one is an all in one. Really good for data and stats although it's raw. It also has teaching resources, blogs, dictionaries, everything you'd really need. The second one is access to all US bills proposed and passed, has impact studies that go along with them, good summaries and actual text if you are brave enough to venture that far and see why nothing ever good comes out of DC. Should help you out alot.

Thank you very much.

**JP226** · May 07, 2009, 04:38 PM

I do forecasting and impact analysis on bills.

**CtrlAltDe1337** · May 07, 2009, 04:55 PM

I've studied economics some, but I don't have a degree in it. I'm a strong supporter of Austrian economics, though.

**Frits Bom de Vakantieman** · May 07, 2009, 05:11 PM

Registred online bully, leaning towards the played out austrian school of economics, because Im still a fool.

**Oldgamer** · May 07, 2009, 05:36 PM

I dropped economics because the course required Calculus (and it wasn't in the syllabus). However, I still kept and read the text because it was an interesting read.

Personally, I'm a capitalist leaning heavily towards supply side ...

**JP226** · May 07, 2009, 06:50 PM

I dropped economics because the course required Calculus (and it wasn't in the syllabus). However, I still kept and read the text because it was an interesting read.

Personally, I'm a capitalist leaning heavily towards supply side ...

Usually the early levels of econ are really nothing more than introductory and shouldn't require any math beyond adding and subtracting.

**Oldgamer** · May 07, 2009, 09:52 PM

Originally Posted by JP226

Usually the early levels of econ are really nothing more than introductory and shouldn't require any math beyond adding and subtracting.

Normally, I would agree with you.

However, it depends on the school and the professor. It was a sophomore-level course and the prof told the class on the first day that if they couldn't do calculus, they would fail the course.

**Lee1026** · May 08, 2009, 02:00 AM

Minor in Economics. Unlike most here, it seems, I tend to approach economics from a mathematical standpoint. My beliefs should be self evident by now.

I'm glad that economics and the interest in liberty that came with it steered me away from becoming your typical ignorant lefty liberal youth.

The youth (that includes me) tends to more extreme in general. For example, the youth disproportionally supported Ron Paul (granted, his support is still trivial), the extremist on the deregulation side.

**Viking Prince** · May 08, 2009, 02:03 AM

Accounting and stat undergraduate and economics graduate (micro labor mostly)

**JP226** · May 08, 2009, 12:59 PM

Micro labor, I tried diving into labor econ once with an OLS looking for wage descrepancies between males and females. One of my first econometric modelling attempts and boy howdy did I ever screw that one up. Messing up the little things like differences between employed, unemployed and labor participation. Never did go back to it beyond some dabbling in the theoretical world.