User:Charles Matthews/Economics editathon

This page is for an invitation-only event, to be held in Trinity College, Cambridge, running from 2 pm to 6 pm on 21 June 2018. The organisers are Dr. Rupert Gatti and User:Charles Matthews.

The venue will be the Wolfson Seminar Rooms.

This is a placeholder page, and a list of economics topics that we'll work on, improving and creating Wikipedia articles, will be added.

Participants should bring a laptop: editing from a phone is not recommended. You should create a Wikipedia account before signing the list below.

Participants

 * If you intend to be present as an editor, please add yourself to the list below. The code to use is # on a new line, and you need to be logged into your Wikipedia account to add it.


 * 1) rupertgatti
 * 2) katefyy
 * 3) martin_lukk
 * 4) VKRastogi
 * 5) angusgroom
 * 6) kavi96
 * 7) hamish.low
 * 8) hs605
 * 9) debobhatta
 * 10) tvdvc2
 * 11) saimandsaeed
 * 12) HannahKirk (talk)
 * 13) A.vasilj (talk)
 * 14) Deryck C.

Suggestions for editing

 * Please list below any wikipedia articles you think could do with some editing, and any suggestions for ways they could be improved.


 * Utility - Is functional representation of a preference ordering, no mention of Gérard Debreu.
 * Marginal utility - The section on diminishing marginal utility has a flag asking for help
 * Vickrey–Clarke–Groves mechanism - No references to any economic literature, no mention of implementation difficulties, e.g. with coalition formation.
 * Samuelson condition - Just a stub.
 * Public good - Several flags seeking development.
 * Behavioural economics - There are some statements that are just wrong. E.g. "Further, prospect theory has been used to explain phenomena that existing decision theories have great difficulty in explaining. These include backward bending labor supply curves, asymmetric price elasticities, tax evasion and co-movement of stock prices and consumption." And the section on criticisms is especially weak. David Levine's book Is Behavioural Economics Doomed? raises a bunch of issues.
 * Moral hazard - The section "Insurance industry" has a flag asking for editorial help.
 * Homo economicus - not fit for purpose.

Articles improved

 * Economics of religion
 * Homo economicus
 * Peter Diamond - Diamond–Mirrlees Production Efficiency Result
 * (add articles you worked on...)