Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quality of life economics


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The result was Delete. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-09 10:08Z 

Quality of life economics

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Appears to be totally WP:OR. Does not cite sources, has no references, and does not even assert any academic notability - and thus fail WP:ATT, and probably WP:NOTE. Speaking as someone trained in economics, it also appears to be total gibberish - the description of what the topic is does not jive with the common academic use of the term "economics", (For instance, "urban land economics"), and instead reads like some kind of social prescriptive system. Furthermore, it includes terms which appear incoherent - "Ultimate Economics" - and a "sector of quality of life economics" section which make little to no sense, and is probably wildly at odds with reality. I'm strongly inclined to this is probably something someone made up at school, and thus falls under WP:NOT, or is a hoax. Furthermore, the phrase itself has only 195 Ghits, and literally none of them have anything to do with the topic discussed here. This should be deleted.
 * I should note, however, that there is probably some sub-discipline with economics somewhere called "quality of life economics", but I can tell you that this isn't it. There's nothing salvageable here, and I'm not familiar enough with the term - and neither is, apparently, Google - to produce an article. Haemo 11:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NEO. Some economists do indeed deal with "quality of life" issues, but this article is essentially about a neologistic concept (perhaps entirely made-up) that attempts to define a certain class of economic systems.  From what I can tell, the economic system described approximates the theoretical model of the modernised burgeois democracy (the degree of conformance between theory and reality can be disputed).  I cannot make sense of the article's mention of the "biospheric environment": the "biosphere" is the environment.  I commend Haemo for his well-reasoned nomination and good-faith effort to actually make sense of this strange article. -- Black Falcon 22:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, if an article on the academic study of "quality of life" issues were to be written, it might be more appropriate as a subsection of Quality of life, depending on the availability of published sources. -- Black Falcon 22:20, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NEO. Bits of this original research keep cropping up (see the deletion log for Ultimate Economics -- -- and the AFD). --Calton | Talk 06:53, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - per Calton. Smmurphy(Talk) 23:31, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


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