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MarginalRevolution on Facebook
It is now a group with seven members -- "Marginal Revolution = Steroids for the Brain" -- maybe you can get through this link. I'll try to join myself, if I can figure out how...
Posted by Tyler Cowen on November 27, 2006 at 07:16 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink
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Tyler/Alex: if you want me to take the image down due to copyright (I am the group creator) please let me know. Thanks for joining, Tyler. BTW the group "most related" to the Marginal Revolution group on Facebook is, not surprisingly, "Honoring Milton Friedman".
Posted by: Sean at Nov 27, 2006 9:45:44 AM
The image looks great there, thanks for your work on this...
Posted by: Tyler Cowen at Nov 27, 2006 10:05:59 AM
Also, as of 11:30 EST, the group had 80 members. A 10-fold increase....
Posted by: Sam at Nov 27, 2006 12:13:35 PM
Currently, there are 138 members in this group, the same as "Cowen-R-us".
Posted by: David at Nov 27, 2006 2:20:57 PM
The George Mason University network of Facebook also has a Tyler Cowen fanclub, titled "Tyler Cowen Rocks My Face Off". Unfortunately for non-Mason students, you have to be part of the GMU Facebook network to join. Good group name though.
Posted by: Corey at Nov 27, 2006 3:49:33 PM
Good way to get a quick breakdown of the female/male readership ratio (at least in that age bracket).
Pretty much in line with my priors: 70-30
Posted by: Dan K at Nov 27, 2006 4:33:24 PM
David: as I noted in the comments on the Polonium post, 138 is also the half-life (in days) of a certain radioactive element. This is getting spooky.
Posted by: J. Lilly at Nov 27, 2006 9:07:18 PM
It would really be a great thing if sites like face book are put to use in such productive ways too. Technically face book and other similar sites connect people anywhere across the globe and helps to network with people sharing same interests. It also is a great place to get in touch with someone whom you have not been in touch with after school etc.
It is absolutely interesting to learn that it is now being put to academic use. There might be so many after this, I am sure who would simply visit this site out of curiosity at least.
So many visitors and members who have not had a taste of economics also would surely find the site informative and interesting. I am sure the members would increase to a very large extent.
I think it would just be very essential if people could discuss economics via face book.
A lot of knowledge sharing of any kind can be used in the process. There might for all we know, exist auction forums and signaling by various users.
I am sure this is going to be a big thing in face book!
Posted by: janani Ram at Nov 30, 2006 1:14:49 AM
