r/Economics
The Dismal Science
Founded January 2008 · Public — anyone can post
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
Members
5,765,443
5.8M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
17.0
from the last 100 posts, spanning 5.8 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Oct 28
sampled Oct 28
Distinct posters
53%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 18 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
Tracking since Sep 18 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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A friend of mine once said: You know what the problem is with being an economist? Everyone has an opinion about the economy. Nobody goes up to a geologist and says, 'Igneous rocks are fucking bullshit.' This subreddit is the repository for all of the woeful, antiquated, or plain old misguided notions Redditors post about how the economy works.
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r/Economics — frequently asked
How many members does r/Economics have?
r/Economics has 5,765,443 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 18. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/Economics growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/Economics yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 18; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/Economics?
Around 17.0 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 5.8 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/Economics created?
r/Economics was founded in January 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/Economics?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 53% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 28. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/Economics?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/Economics yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/Economics for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Economics into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/Economics's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Economics's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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