User:Loftusjp/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Economic history

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.) I chose this topic because I am an Economics major at Miami. I think this matters because having an understanding of our economy and the stock market is essential in adulthood. I enjoyed this article and had a positive first impression of it. I did not know much about early economic history and found this article to be very informative on that subject.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead is a concise paragraph and provides a good look into what the whole article will be about. The lead also provides explanations on what the definition of economics is. I think the content of the article is in line with the title and overall subject. This article provides a lot about early history of economics and who the pioneers of economics were. The article briefly talks about how economics has slightly changed today but stays mainly focused on the history of economics. I think this article is very neutral and well balanced, at no point did I think it was leaning one way or another. The article is able to briefly mention how some politics play a role in economics but at no point were sides revealed or biases felt. I think the organization of the article is well thought out and the sources are reliable and contain solid information. My only issue is that there is not much behind the graph image, there is no explanation for the graph. I think a little writing about what the graph means and is portraying would help the article a lot overall. I think the article could benefit from a couple more pictures or graphs to help show the history. Maybe more pictures of early economists. Overall, I thought this article was well put together and was very informative of the history of economics.