Top 100 Economics Blogs & Websites To Follow in 2021
Top 100 Economics Blogs & Websites To Follow in 2021
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In 29th place, then at least AB is ahead of Tim Taylor in 30th. None of the blogs ahead of AB are even half as good as the late great Economist’s View. Where have you gone, Mark Thoma?
Looks like he retired at the end of 2019, based on his last blog post and dearth of activity. Apparently happily living in San Diego per Twitter.
Fraud:
You can find him on Facebook also. I have briefly chatted with him or commented.
Run,
My question was rhetorical drawn from “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?” – a romantic song by Simon and Bullwinkle. What EV had was big broad input channels from diverse academic sources accompanied by big broad comments threads posted by its subscribership of hyper-active peanut gallery personalities. It was the econ blog equivalent of Mystery Science Theater 3000 where classics get tossed by the unwashed. At worst it was entertaining and at best profoundly heterodox. A little heterodox is a good thing when the status quo is insane.
Doc Thoma was as remarkably centrist as he was remarkably tolerant. At least he wore a centrist hat moderating EV. OTOH, his purpose was to expose academics and the general public to each other, so to do that he really had to stand roughly on the center line to avoid a wreck.
Ron:
Rhetorical is lost on me. Just the facts or numbers please, man or mam! Dan tells an interesting story of how AB helped EV get started. Not so sure on the MST 3000 comp. That was a pretty good show and I would be laughing my ass off on Saturdays while my wife would wonder why I was laughing.
I would like to think Thoma is out there somewhere still testing the questions arising due to, or from our economy. We never retire, just fade away.
Run,
It was mostly Owen Paine that had me laughing every day, but not only him. Among the rest though most of the humor was unintentional. It was Paine’s humor and intellect along with Thoma’s tolerance of my irreverence towards mainstream academics that held me there. I recall your story of contact with Doc Thoma, but I never had any contact with him myself aside from administrative matters over software bugs with Typepad. Also, it was there at EV that Seth and Goldilocksisableachblonde introduced me to Keynes’s General Theory and Consequences of the Peace. So, the MST 3000 connection was to the irreverent heckling of stodgy orthodoxy by its more realistic fan club than the chuckles in and of themselves. I passed by MST 3000 scanning channels many times, but never stopped in for more than a few minutes. Back when I still watched TV on weekends then it was mostly CSPAN BookTV up until I finally got past being house poor and had more useful things to do. I find humor in almost everything because that has better outcomes than going postal.