LA Times Introduces A Few Blogging Economists
On November 23, 2006, the Los Angeles Times published an informative article on economists who blog about their work and theories.
Standing out are George Mason University faculty members Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok's blog Marginal Revolution. It has "had more than 6 million visitors" since its debut three-years ago, according to Times reporter Alana Semuels. "Cowen has become something he didn't even know existed: an economics celebrity." she wrote.
After reading about them and other blogging economists, I found myself wishing blogging was around when I took three economics course at Chicago State University and East-West University in the late 1980s. Although I passed them, they were boring. With a blog, I could have engaged others interested in the subject and perhaps gotten a better understanding of what I was studying.
To read The Times post, see "Now online: slide-rule celebrities. Also see "Faculty and Grad Student Economics Weblogs"
at George Mason.
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