User:The Land/Economic Debates Style

This is intended to become a draft proposed guideline.

Many economics topics involve controversies between different schools of economic thought. Most particularly, they require an outline of Keynesian views contrasted with monetarist, classical economics or neoclassical economics views.

To help keep articles short and relevant to their subject matter, and avoid duplicating the same material many, many times, please observe the following guidelines: If you know relatively little economic theory, please appreciate that:

• There are many different schools of thought amongst economists on all sides of the argument
• Pure 'Keynesian' and 'monetarist' perspectives are generally now outdated in economic analysis

If you are editing an economics topic, please:

• Keep summaries of Keynesian vs monetarist debates brief, staying close to actual arguments used at the time.
• Use plentiful wikilinks to allow readers to explore topics such as Say's law, perfect competition, price rigidity and so on without explaining them in full.
• Only provide balancing information to a concept if it is very relevant to the article concerned. For instance, you should probalby provide description and critique of Laffer curve in the article on Supply-side economics, but not much of Say's law.
• Be specific about who supports a theory or policy. Distinguish between Keynes, Keynesianism, post-Keynesian economics, and New Keynesian economics on the one hand: and Neo-classical synthesis, classical economics, Real business cycle theorists, monetarism, the Austrian school, Supply-side economics, and Objectivism on the other.
• Provide sources as always, but note the general school the source falls into.