Portal talk:Business and economics/Intro

NOV problems
Some serious NPOV problems addressed in the most recent edits:
 * A distinct bias towards neoclassical economics and the "Anglo-American" school has been reduced and explicitly acknowledged
 * Major economic measures reported on the news (Gross Domestic Product, debt to GDP ratio) and issues (greenhouse gases and other pollution, biodiversity) are put in context so someone simply interested in deepening their understanding of news can start browsing and searching for themselves; To assume that the reader is interested in only an economics-student view of the subject is an NPOV problem
 * The four major schools of thought and the pragmatic monetary policy/central bank consensus that tends to decide what currencies are really "worth" are now listed, and given a couple of paragraphs to emphasize their most critical differences and guide further study
 * "Sustainability", the major source of change in economic theory 1990-present, is acknowledged as a core concern of both business (as it so affects profit margins, marketability, talent recruitment) and economics (as it affects resource costs, capital investment decisions, def'n of inflation and GDP, etc.); You will not find a business or economics school that tells its students not to pay attention to these changes...

When Basel III is updated, some of the economic terminology will be clearer and we will have more articles on risk management and so on to link to directly.

There's a strong argument to divide the portals up into micro-economics (more like the original portal here for "business and economics") and a separate one on macro-economics (including political economy, economic history, monetary policy, and the major schools of economic policies) but both of them would have to include at least mention of the different views of the four schools and link to the Sustainability portal, so this latest edit is a starting point to make decisions like that.

At present it devotes about a third of its space to macro-, a third to micro-, and a third to specific economic issues and current references.

It reads more like the introductions in a good macro-economics textbook like Parker (which includes actual interviews with Nobel Prize winners, uses current event examples, and so on). Anyone editing this portal deeply should be very familiar with several such current textbook sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.177.209.39 (talk • contribs) 18:15, 21 December 2011‎

Very long
This "intro" box is about five times bigger than the corresponding box in other portals. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:19, 5 January 2013 (UTC)