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The economist you most want to see blogging
Dani Rodrik's readers named Joe Stiglitz first, Daron Acemoglu second. Sen, Akerlof, and Bhagwati were next in line. Here is the full list. Loyal MR readers, please offer your picks in the comments, I am curious to see how much the two lists differ.
Addendum: Arnold Kling comments.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on September 21, 2007 at 06:40 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink
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Ed Phelps.
I would really like to hear more of his thoughts on europe, economic history, and the importance of a dynamic economy. Essentially, the same things he talks about in "Understanding the Great Changes in the World", except bite-size.
Plus, I wouldn't mind seeing economic intellectual history discussed more often. I'm sure Phelps has some great stories about being on "front lines of economics" in the '60s and '70s.
IOW: Older economists should blog more.
Posted by: Student at Sep 21, 2007 7:05:36 AM
Rodrik's readers would be disappointed with a Stiglitz blog. He is above all a great economic theorist, but he doesn't seem as various-minded, mentally flexible or interested in the details of the everyday to make a good blogger. Although I suppose there will always be a large readership for another monochrome liberal celebrity-blog.
My suggestions: Larry Summers, Jagdish Bhagwati, Amartya Sen.
Posted by: br at Sep 21, 2007 7:08:50 AM
I'll second Sen - particularly because it would involve a decidedly non US/UK/EU focus. Likewise Bhagwati - though I suspect he might turn out the way Student fears Stiglitz would.
Posted by: tadhgin at Sep 21, 2007 7:14:50 AM
Xavier Sala-i-Martín
Posted by: Jordi DLT at Sep 21, 2007 7:20:46 AM
Larry Summers, Emily Oster, Jesse Shapiro, Ed Glaeser, Robert Barro, Tom Schelling, Larry Iannaccone, Dan Hamermesh
Posted by: jason voorhees at Sep 21, 2007 7:31:58 AM
Larry Summers, Gordon Tullock, and Armen Alchian come to mind. Kevin Murphy and James Heckman, perhaps.
Posted by: Eric Rasmusen at Sep 21, 2007 7:33:39 AM
Adam Smith. That would be freaking wierd, though.
Posted by: josh at Sep 21, 2007 7:46:02 AM
bob hall
Posted by: at Sep 21, 2007 7:54:44 AM
stiglitz, no doubt.
Posted by: kid mercury at Sep 21, 2007 8:04:18 AM
James Heckman. Not the most likeable person perhaps, but boy, what a sharp mind.
Posted by: LemmusLemmus at Sep 21, 2007 8:10:06 AM
Stiglitz? Eeek! Has anyone actually read the pieces he does for Project Syndicate? A great man and all but not exactly the most incisive writer.
Me, I'd like to see Deepak Lal. Let's have some classical liberalism for a change.
Posted by: Tim Worstall at Sep 21, 2007 8:16:01 AM
Bastiat would be a kick ass blogger.
Posted by: 8 at Sep 21, 2007 8:18:16 AM
Edward Glaeser.
Arnold Kling (sorry Tyler, you're better on screen and in print).
Posted by: aaron at Sep 21, 2007 8:23:01 AM
Vernon Smith and John List--the past and future of experimental economics.
Posted by: zbicy at Sep 21, 2007 8:45:54 AM
Robert Frank
Xavier Sala-i-Martín
Jonathan Wight
Bill Easterly
Steven Landsburg
Posted by: wintercow20 at Sep 21, 2007 8:54:45 AM
I'd have to pick James Buchannan, Deirdre McClosky, or Bill Easterly
Posted by: Tom at Sep 21, 2007 8:58:37 AM
Alan Greenspan. He's pretty far down the slippery slope to blogging now, anyway.
Posted by: mkl at Sep 21, 2007 9:01:40 AM
I voted for Stiglitz at Rodrik's site but I now change my vote to Deirdre McCloskey and Bill Easterly.
Posted by: eriks at Sep 21, 2007 9:02:53 AM
Partha Dasgupta, one of our best moral philosophers.
I'll also second the vote for Dan Hamermesh. I took a class from him once and he was extremely personable and very excited about teaching economics to undergrads; if he could bring that passion to blogging he'd be great.
Posted by: Daniel Hall at Sep 21, 2007 9:03:14 AM
I have been feeling like cutting down blog reading. But if any of these guys starts blogging (Sen, McCloskey and Philip Mirowski), I will read, eagerly!
I would love to read Schelling daily, but it doesn't feel right to ask someone to start blogging in their late 80's.
Posted by: Yan Li at Sep 21, 2007 9:08:49 AM
Alberto Alesina
Posted by: Bonapart O Cunasa at Sep 21, 2007 9:13:11 AM
Danny Quah, Gerard Roland, James Heckman, Robert Lucas, Tom Sargent, Justin Wolfers.
Posted by: ricardo at Sep 21, 2007 9:37:26 AM
Robert M. Solow.
Posted by: Moggio at Sep 21, 2007 9:51:24 AM
Andrew Caplin.
Posted by: generalists at Sep 21, 2007 9:53:37 AM
Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Bill Easterly, Chris Phelan, Narayana Kocherlakota, Mike Golosov
Posted by: rabbi at Sep 21, 2007 9:54:50 AM
