Ideas for new forums categories?

[David]

Looking to make this as useful as possible, please suggest some new forum categories.

[Waleed Jamil]

The obvious one is the current crisis, and I would suggest a forum which helps divide the effected areas such as Stocks, Foreign Exchange, Commodity markets, Government behaviour etc etc etc. In addition, it may be worth having one which looks at behaviours of Central Banks as well.

[Gavin]

I can see that there already is a forum for current economic climate, and now there is one for financial markets

[Pete Bolton]

How about a discussion group about the methodology of economics. The discipline is becoming increasingly criticised both from within and without. Economists like Deidrie McCloskey and Tony Lawson are coming out to say that they believe economics to be total pseudo-scientific rubbish, while philosopher have for years been showing skepticism about the assumptions and framework of the subject. Others such as Paul Ormerod wish to the way economics is taught to be radically changed. The student group post-autistic economics was formed a few years ago mostly by french students stating their dissatisfaction with the preoccupation with mathematics and the seeming lack of connection with the real world, distinguished economists such as Jim Stanford of the Canadian auto union have written for their website and spoken out in favour of their cause. A very funny as well as informative article can be seen on the post-autistic economics review at this link http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue21/Stanford21.htm
Deidrie McCloskey's book The Secret Sins of Economics which discusss the shoddy philosophical and methodologcal backdrop to economics and its failure to constitute genuine science can be seen here http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/paradigm4.pdf
I'd really like to see what people have to say about this as I think that economics is beoming dangerously unscientific and when these are such important questions........ I could really go on about this for hours.....

[daniel duffy]

should power be taken away from MP's in the area's such as tation and bugets and placed in the hands of highlt skilled puplic servents. as MP's espicaly during election years may have to much self-interst and may be able to make tought choices they may needed, due to fair of not getting relected

[Danny Teok]

I'll be bold and shameless. I suggest a category for Complexity Economics.
The latter is a budding area albeit have been around for 20 odd years.

[Kushal Balluck]

Can we have an "econ jobs" category?

[Shilpi]

I can see that there already alot of forums for current economic climate, and now there is one for financial markets