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r/Economics
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Reddit's largest economics community. Serving as a central forum for users to read, discuss, and learn more about topics related to the economic discipline. We have written rules to support this aim and welcome those who want to learn and those who want to contribute. We aim to foster an environment where everybody feels safe and welcomed and where people feel encouraged to have healthy and productive discuss
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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-Speci...
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January 25, 2008
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Total Submissions
328,957
Total Comments
5,478,203
Earliest Submission
January 25, 2008
Earliest Comment
January 25, 2008
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Most Distinctive Words
Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 5,660 | 50,211 | 167.6 | 0.4 | 400.30 | |
| #2 | 9,331 | 101,562 | 276.3 | 0.8 | 326.26 | |
| #3 | 1,553 | 18,896 | 46.0 | 0.2 | 291.86 | |
| #4 | 9,689 | 124,616 | 286.9 | 1.0 | 276.11 | |
| #5 | 984 | 15,740 | 29.1 | 0.1 | 222.00 | |
| #6 | 9,336 | 209,179 | 276.5 | 1.7 | 158.49 | |
| #7 | 9,259 | 231,841 | 274.2 | 1.9 | 141.82 | |
| #8 | 5,668 | 144,662 | 167.8 | 1.2 | 139.14 | |
| #9 | 616 | 15,857 | 18.2 | 0.1 | 137.95 | |
| #10 | 37,395 | 964,071 | 1107.3 | 8.0 | 137.75 | |
| #11 | 833 | 23,750 | 24.7 | 0.2 | 124.55 | |
| #12 | 3,242 | 95,478 | 96.0 | 0.8 | 120.58 | |
| #13 | 4,993 | 149,046 | 147.9 | 1.2 | 118.96 | |
| #14 | 2,475 | 74,854 | 73.3 | 0.6 | 117.42 | |
| #15 | 1,233 | 39,660 | 36.5 | 0.3 | 110.40 | |
| #16 | 508 | 16,382 | 15.0 | 0.1 | 110.12 | |
| #17 | 557 | 20,087 | 16.5 | 0.2 | 98.47 | |
| #18 | 938 | 34,601 | 27.8 | 0.3 | 96.27 | |
| #19 | 442 | 17,767 | 13.1 | 0.1 | 88.34 | |
| #20 | 805 | 34,428 | 23.8 | 0.3 | 83.03 | |
| #21 | 582 | 24,935 | 17.2 | 0.2 | 82.89 | |
| #22 | 2,310 | 99,983 | 68.4 | 0.8 | 82.05 | |
| #23 | 1,007 | 44,130 | 29.8 | 0.4 | 81.03 | |
| #24 | 358 | 15,732 | 10.6 | 0.1 | 80.81 | |
| #25 | 672 | 29,682 | 19.9 | 0.2 | 80.40 | |
| #26 | 468 | 20,847 | 13.9 | 0.2 | 79.72 | |
| #27 | 834 | 37,763 | 24.7 | 0.3 | 78.43 | |
| #28 | 10,058 | 456,925 | 297.8 | 3.8 | 78.17 | |
| #29 | 14,111 | 650,934 | 417.9 | 5.4 | 76.98 | |
| #30 | 2,229 | 104,004 | 66.0 | 0.9 | 76.11 | |
| #31 | 10,173 | 475,827 | 301.2 | 4.0 | 75.92 | |
| #32 | 731 | 35,618 | 21.6 | 0.3 | 72.88 | |
| #33 | 649 | 31,898 | 19.2 | 0.3 | 72.25 | |
| #34 | 3,255 | 160,261 | 96.4 | 1.3 | 72.13 | |
| #35 | 901 | 45,504 | 26.7 | 0.4 | 70.31 | |
| #36 | 461 | 23,500 | 13.7 | 0.2 | 69.66 | |
| #37 | 2,151 | 109,905 | 63.7 | 0.9 | 69.50 | |
| #38 | 57,323 | 2,963,004 | 1697.4 | 24.7 | 68.70 | |
| #39 | 317 | 16,603 | 9.4 | 0.1 | 67.80 | |
| #40 | 1,130 | 62,425 | 33.5 | 0.5 | 64.28 | |
| #41 | 12,509 | 693,372 | 370.4 | 5.8 | 64.07 | |
| #42 | 1,254 | 69,630 | 37.1 | 0.6 | 63.95 | |
| #43 | 541 | 30,119 | 16.0 | 0.3 | 63.79 | |
| #44 | 9,590 | 542,016 | 284.0 | 4.5 | 62.83 | |
| #45 | 680 | 41,462 | 20.1 | 0.3 | 58.24 | |
| #46 | 3,335 | 204,216 | 98.8 | 1.7 | 57.99 | |
| #47 | 499 | 30,587 | 14.8 | 0.3 | 57.93 | |
| #48 | 241 | 14,961 | 7.1 | 0.1 | 57.20 | |
| #49 | 581 | 36,724 | 17.2 | 0.3 | 56.18 | |
| #50 | 675 | 42,922 | 20.0 | 0.4 | 55.85 |