User:Lawrencekhoo

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Wikinality Cal This user attends or attended the University of California, Berkeley H This user attends or attended Harvard University. PhD This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Economics. This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals. This user teaches at a university or other institution of higher education. This user is a member of WikiProject Economics. CSB This user is a member of the WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias This user is interested in Chinese culture. This user is interested in Buddhism. This user is a member of the Kindness Campaign. This editor is a WikiGnome.

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I am a professional economist and an amateur computer geek. I've been sporadically contributing to Wikipedia since 2005. When editing, I like improving presentation and clarity, and making sure that pages are balanced and adequately represent mainstream academic thought. I'm available to answer any questions you may have about economics.

--LK (talk)

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• Community Reinvestment Act
• Compass
• Deposit account
• Economic efficiency
• Externality
• Four Great Inventions of ancient China
• Georgism
• Gift economy
• Goldfish
• Inflation
• Jevons paradox
• Kaldor-Hicks efficiency
• Mandate of Heaven
• Microeconomic reform
• Minimum wage
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• Presidential transition
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• Protectionism
• Prussian carp
• Rebound effect (conservation)
• Right of revolution
• Unintended consequence

[edit] Verifiability not Truth

It seems that many new contributors are confused about this, so it bears repeating here. Our standard for inclusion in Wikipedia is "Verifiability, not Truth". Facts and citations can be verified; 'truths' are often open to dispute. This principle has allowed a diverse community of editors to work together on Wikipedia to cover a wide spectrum of subjects including Global warming and Jesus of Nazareth, for which there is hardly a lack of dispute over 'truth'.

Wikipedia is not a forum to promote or educate people about neglected fields. Ideas and theories should not appear on Wikipedia until and unless citations can be provided that show that they have been published in reliable sources that are not self-published.

The following are accepted reliable sources (in order of reliability).

1. Peer-reviewed journals and books published by university presses
2. University-level textbooks
3. Magazines, journals, and books published by respected publishing houses
4. Mainstream newspapers

Another way to view the principle "verifiability, not truth", is to understand that we as editors, cannot judge what should or shouldn't be in this encyclopedia, and so we look to external authorities (academic journals, textbooks, major newspapers) to guide us. It's no use convincing me, or any of the other editors here on Wikipedia, of the truth of your position. Judgment of what should be in Wikipedia is deferred to external mainstream sources of information. This is one of the bedrock principles upon which Wikipedia is built.