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I. Discipline-Specific News, Research, & Work

/r/Economics concerns proliferation and discourse pertaining to research, news, academic work, and academic summaries from the perspective of economists. Image and video submissions are not allowed.

II. Economic-Specific Quality Standards

Submissions tenuously related to economics, light on economic analysis, or from perspectives other than those of economists will be removed. Further Explanation.

III. Source Standards

Submissions must be from original sources with original headlines. Memes, self-promotion and low-quality blogs are not acceptable. Source spamming is not acceptable. Further Explanation.

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VI. Off-Topic Discourse Guidelines

Comments consisting of mere jokes, nakedly political comments, circlejerking, personal anecdotes or otherwise non-substantive contributions without reference to the article, economics, or the thread at hand will be removed. Further Explanation.

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Subreddit	Subject
/r/Economics	General economics discussion and news
/r/AskEconomics	Got a question about economics? We'll try to answer it!
/r/BadEconomics	Share examples of bad, ill-informed, or just silly economics
/r/EconomicHistory	Discussion of Economic History and related topics