Is Wikipedia a reliable source for studying Macroeconomics and other branches of Economy?

I'm in a college, and i find many things i learn from books very hard to understand. That said, i regularly endeavor to find other explanations online. I know there are numerous sites offering a myriad of information about economy, but none are well systematized as wikipedia.


If you don't think wiki is a reliable source for economic studies, could you point out to any other (well systematized) web sites that i could use? Thanks very much.|||One of my lecturers would frown at this :) Wikipedia is pot luck since it can be edited by anyone. Generally I find the information to almost always be mostly correct.





However it should only be used as a quick refresh for a previously studied topic. When you study economic literature you not only get accurate information/data/theories etc.... most importantly you learn other things as well that you never set out to learn. This helps create a broad spectrum of knowledge, not only confined to study subjects. This is killer knowledge in exams.|||A lot of professors don't like Wikipedia because it can be edited. Overall it's extremely reliable especially on well known topics and when errors do occur they get corrected quickly. More importantly when bias is in question, wikipedia even notates this and provides alternate arguments and entries if it is really strong.





Look, I study economics and use wikipedia often and it does an excellent job explaining difficult to understand concepts. The truth is, I would trust wikipedia over many other sites. Keep in mind that anyone can put anything on their web page and yes you shouldn't rely on wikipedia alone. Also, you will get a very bad look from your professor if you quote wikipedia, but remember, wikipedia cites their primary sources, so you could just go to the primary source and cite that.





Also, once you have read the topic in wikipedia, you can go back to your textbook and it should be easier to understand.|||Wikipedia is fairly reliable, just don't cite it in a paper. Another good site is: http://www.econlib.org/library/CEECatego鈥?/a> they have a lot of well written, easy to understand articles on a wide variety subjects.|||Its somewhat reliable, but not always accurate. Anyone can edit the information and change it. Just don't cite it.|||I'm with you I'm trying to learn as much about economics as I can. I'm pretty sure wikipedia is fairly accurate.