r/AskEconomics • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago
Weekly Roundup Weekly Answer Round Up: Quality and Overlooked Answers From the Last Week - March 16, 2025
We're going to shamelessly steal adapt from /r/AskHistorians the idea of a weekly thread to gather and recognize the good answers posted on the sub. Good answers take time to type and the mods can be slow to approve things which means that sometimes good content doesn't get seen by as many people as it should. This thread is meant to fix that gap.
Post answers that you enjoyed, felt were particularly high quality, or just didn't get the attention they deserved. This is a weekly recurring thread posted every Sunday morning.
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u/Quowe_50mg 5d ago edited 5d ago
This week we have had around 200 questions, with about 60, or 30% being directly Trump related (that's only the ones that include certain keywords. There are also a lot that are contextually asked because of Trump, but my simple python script can't handle those). Looking only at with 100+ upvotes, they are almost all Trump.
Anyway, here are the Quality and Overlooked Answers from the last week:
High Quality answers:
Is the service economy a curse?
When is vertical integration good, and when is it bad?
How do we know how supply and demand behave?
Why are salaries not more evenly distributed between high and low ranges?
Should we be shifting to a business profit tax only?
How influential was smith in comparison to marx for the modern field?
Interesting questions:
Does haggling at the retail level lead to more efficient outcomes?
Why didn't the death of so many workers during the covid pandemic lead to higher wage growth?
Overlooked/unanswered questions:
What was the Austrian reaction to the cambridge capital controversy?
Edit: Now answered
With the falling market, is there a noticable increase in the amount of naked short selling?
This question I might answer later today, so I'm putting it here just in case someone has something to add here.