Recent additions to my blogroll

The discussion over at Greg Mankiw's weblog on favourite blogs reminded me that I have added seven weblogs to my Economist Weblogs links in the last week or two. In no particular order, they are:

1. Economics and... (knzn.blogspot.com) by US blogger KNZN, a frequent poster of comments on other econoblogs; "I do have a Ph.D. in economics, but aside from that, I won't admit to having any identity at all..."

2. CoRE Economics (economics.com.au) by Melbourne Business School academic economist Joshua Gans, a regular co-author with fellow Aussie econoblogger Andrew Leigh (whose blog is also worth visiting)

3. Johan Norberg (www.johannorberg.net), "a Swedish writer devoted to globalisation and individual liberty", best known for his book In Defence of Global Capitalism

4.  Philippe Legrain (www.philippelegrain.com/legrain), a London-based journalist and writer, author of Open World: The Truth about Globalisation; he is writing a second book, which makes the case for freer international migration

5. Innovation Online (www.ncsu.edu/iei/io/blog/) by Karl Smith from the Institute for Emerging Issues NC State University

6. Environmental Economics (www.environmental-economics.blogspot.com) by Brad Ewing, a senior at The Ohio State University, is the second weblog of this name - not to be confused with the Environmental Economics blog by academics Tim Haab and John Whitehead (I assume ignorance, rather than plagiarism)

7. The Everyday Economist (everydayecon.wordpress.com): libertarian Josh Hendricksen's blog, "explaining the economics of everyday life"

It's a mixed bag, to be sure, and none of the above can rival the justifiably popular econoblogs of Brad DeLong, Greg Mankiw, Mark Thoma or Marginal Revolution. But let's give them their due - they are mostly quite new to the blogosphere.

A notable trend is the growing number of authors setting up weblogs. Once they were mostly vanity sites, but these days they often have plenty of content (think Malcolm Gladwell, Freakonomics and Tim Harford). There is also a fairly strong libertarian bias - though this is hardly new - Jane Galt and Virginia Postrel started that trend years ago.

Comments

[lammert]

And what of the blog that predicted the March 2000 secondary high of the Wilshire to the day?

[claus vistesen]

Ah yes ... who said econbloggers did not constitute a vivid and differentiated lot; perhaps no one did. I am just making a point ... :)

Thanks for this NewEconomist; I will probably transfer some of them to my own blogroll.

[Chris Meisenzahl]

Good links, thanks!

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