Input-output/keynesian Multipliers

Did Economics at degree level - but don't PM me, Martin, it's so long ago I can only just barely remember who John Maynard Keynes was! :(
 
It's not really economics I do but economics comes into it Brian, it's the study of the city and the processes that occur within it. But my dissertation (which I'm having to repeat now - long long story) requires me to try and establish the economic impact that a particular hotel and Southwell racecourse have on Southwell itself.
 
Originally posted by Irish Stamp@Aug 15 2006, 01:50 PM
But my dissertation (which I'm having to repeat now - long long story)
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Does this mean you'll be in Sheffield for another year?

I have an array of Economics textbooks from my first year of my Business degree, I really should stick them on ebay, if you want me to dig anything out then send me a PM.
 
Nope thankfully it doesn't Stan. I'm adjusting it, the first time around I got a poor mark (just below a pass) and this time I hope to have a higher mark. I've got various economic text books - Economics: A Students Guide (written my dissertation supervisor), Urban and Regional Economics, Essentials of Economics etc. and my bibliography is three pages long but still kind of struggling :(

Now i'm stuck on working out a % of a % doing it the way my lecturer told me.
 
Working out percentages of percentages is not that hard.

Let's say you have a number -1000 and you want to find out 73% of 87% of that number. Take it in stages as follows.

1) 1000 / 100 = 10.
10x87 = 870

2) 870/100 = 8.7
8.7x73 = 635.1
 
Thanks Paul. Hope i've got this right now so here goes.

I have 30 hotel rooms and a 72% occupancy rate.

That leaves 21.6 hotel rooms occupied at one time. On certain days this will increase by 15% and thus 3.24 rooms.
 
That's a touch confusing. What will increase by 15%? If it is the occupancy rate then that just puts that up to 87%, or 26.1 rooms.
 
No, I mean them. Economics is a plural noun, according to my compact OED, "often treated as sing."

Was it worth splitting hairs over?
 
You're both correct gentlemen, when discussing the science (art?) either may be used.

I would prefer the singular myself. Which looks the more correct?

"I studied economics at Oxford for two years but then gave it up to study law".

"I studied economics at Oxford for two years but then gave them up to study law".

No contest, in my opinion.
 
Or mine.

DO, we split hairs regularly on here and I hope we all learn something from it.
 
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