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Split off portions

This article currently documents two different things:

The prescientific era of economics (like alchemy is to chemistry) which precedes the mathematicization of the field.
The modern study of economic systems, also called comparative economics (under JEL classification code P).

They're related to each other, but the second should be split off into the article on comparative economics, to avoid confusing the two. – Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 05:03, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Protalina, feel free to discuss any questions or concerns you might have with this plan here! – Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 23:58, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Thanks for your kind invitation, but I don't have enough knowledge of the field to comment further. Perhaps, though, it would be productive to outline your plan at WP:ECON and get feedback there – apologies ofc if already done ;-) Protalina (talk) 14:21, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not convinced that it's better to re-title this page 'Comparative economy'. My understanding is that 'Political economy' is a large and storied subfield. Wouldn't 'comparative economy' (or 'comparative political economy') better fit as a subfield of 'Political economy'? In the same way that International political economy is a subfield of Political economy? Thenightaway (talk) 17:49, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So, it kind of depends—retitling as "Comparative economy" was just supposed to be the first step to splitting the article. The issue here is the term "political economy" is overloaded, so the article is talking about several distinct concepts as if they were the same thing. – Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 19:02, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

'Political economy' vs 'Comparative economy'

Why was the name of the page changed from 'Political economy' to 'Comparative economy'? I'm not wholly opposed to the change, but shouldn't there be a discussion prior to such a drastic change? Thenightaway (talk) 14:26, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I tried to discuss it (see section directly above); nobody objected after a month so I started the process. That said, I've undone it for now, since it looks like some people might want to discuss it :) – Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 17:33, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. I missed it. Possibly one way to get further input is to use the formal 'request move' process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_moves Thenightaway (talk) 17:47, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support for a formal process. That could certainly be a good way to get comments on what I can now see would be a significant change. Saying this after having had a look at occurrences of "political economy" in the titles of current academic journals, uni departments and research groups, postgrad courses, professorships, & so on, plus how the field is covered in other encyclopaedias, dictionaries, glossaries, etc. Protalina (talk) 22:10, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]