My Last Post

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Sorry to hear this. We’ll miss you. But hopefully enjoy your essays.

Sad! Your blogging has been a public good. You could have ended your post, in Kling fashion, with “Have a nice day.”

As others, I will greatly miss your sharp analysis, keen wit, and especially your tempered, generous and open-minded tone. Even your sarcasm was fair and avoided the ugly ad hominem that is so common with many leading bloggers.

This distressing news is the first bit of compelling evidence that I’ve encountered in favor of the great-stagnation thesis.

You’ll be missed – very much so – in the blogosphere.

Arnold is one of my favorite bloggers. I’m sorry to hear this. Thanks for the last several years of blogging!

What is the difference between an essay and a blog post?

Hey, you did a great job. I will look forward to your essays.

Good luck in your new venture!

You have consistently been the first economics “blogger” I read daily. Your logic is sound, your writing clear and you have always taught me something in virtually every blog you have written. I have read two of your books. I read Learning Economics in about 2006 or so and thought, “yes, another rare sighting, a clear writer on Economics who writes with the clarity of Milton Friedman”, and have been a follower ever since.

Writing for the laymen is the most important public function an economist can perform, applying principles to the cnditions of the day. This does not preclude original research, of course, but for someone like me it is invaluable.

I will miss your blogging and look forward to your future essays. I will miss the opportunity “to think out loud” by being able to comment on your writings.

I will miss your daily thoughts. I just hope your essays will be available to the public without going through the academic publishing cartel(!). I look forward to your future work.

Hopefully you will link to your essays here. I have enjoyed reading your posts on EconLog very much.

Say it ain’t so Arnold.

I’m selfishly disappointed to see this, because I’ve found you a must-read and the reason EconLog is normally the first click when I check Google Readers. Thanks for all the free lunch, and best of luck in the new direction.

I will sorely miss your Lessons , my teacher.

I’m very sad to hear that. Yours was a good voice in the blogosphere.

Thank you for all the hard work and I look forward to reading you essays!

This is robustly suboptimal news. But thank you for all the informative postings.

I looked forward to reading your posts every morning, and as such you have truly altered my thinking on many points. Even my progressive friends were impressed with your work.

Now, I look forward to your essays. Best of luck!

The economically literate of Australia will miss you.

I’ll miss your writing. Your original ideas have been so refreshing.

Please have someone (Bryan?) provide links to your work in the future.

Thank you!

You are the main reason I read EconLog, this saddens me. I hope your essays are linked to from here.

I want to say this is very disappointing, but that sounds ungrateful. Perhaps it would be more positive to say that the time you *were* blogging was very “appointing”?

Ditto to all the above. On top of that I immediately ordered every book you ever mentioned favourably. A great loss, unless the essays are just as chatty.

Good luck in your new life. Life for many of us was better with a daily dose of Arnold Kling.

Thanks for your years of observations and thoughts here. I look forward to reading your essays.

Arnold I am going to miss you terribly. Yours was the first voice online that I identified with. Your blog was the first place online where I felt comfortable, thus able to begin the long journey of finding my own economic voice. I understand that essay writing is one of the best ways to convey economic concerns in the present, for it is the direction I will also be taking in the near future. Even so, that means I have to get back out in the world and find new friends because you are one of the online friends I will miss most!

Where will your essays be published? We’d have less reason to mourn if we knew you’d get new audiences.

Your writings went above and beyond the sharp analysis expected from high-quality economists and often had a ‘wise-man philosopher’ tone to them in addition. That’s what ill miss most about your posts. I am looking forward to your essays, at least.

Here’s a list, not up-to-date, of past essays. Will your new ones be posted there?

http://arnoldkling.com/~arnoldsk/aimstindex.html

I look forward to continuing to enjoy your thoughts.

I checked in a couple of hours ago – I check back and there is a farewell post with 50 something comments. Evidently you have a lot of readers who may not comment very often, but they apparently follow you avidly. I’m one of them.

Thanks for many interesting ideas over the years, not least the voice/exit distinction.

Best of luck in your future endeavors.

Gonna miss your blogging big time. Please find a way to keep us posted on the books you’re reading, either through your essays or even Amazon reviews. You’re one of the rare bloggers who actually reads a lot of good books and tells us about it.

There goes my favorite blog.

will you at least post your essays here?

You will be missed. Greatly.

FWIW, I’ve learned quite a lot from you.

But if you write essays, please let us know where we can read them.

Wow, this is a drastic hit to my favorite blog…

Farewell

Sorry to see you were put into an exit-vs-voice position, Mr. Kling. I’ve much enjoyed reading your work, and hope to in the future.

Thank you. I’ve enjoyed your posts for quite some time.

Kitchen, heat. Door, ass. Pot kettle black. Not ever read your blog either. Have a nice day.

Sad news for the rest of us, Arnold! You will be missed in the blogosphere.

Damn. Always a pleasure to see work by Kling.

Goodbye, Arnold.

Sorry to hear this, but looking forward to reading the essays.

Add me to the list of people sad so see you stop blogging, and looking forward to reading those essays.

I am sad, I have enjoyed Arnold Kling’s blogging greatly.

Salute!

Sad news, Arnold.

I hope you’ll still by EconLog occasionally, even if you give up blogging regularly. At the very least, you should come back to promote these essays!

Too bad, your posts will be missed. I guess the opportunity cost of writing blogs became too high so you had to choose exit – smart choice. I will continue enjoying your intuitive essays and am looking forward to your new research.

Best of luck Professor Kling!

Very sad news. You were easily my favourite blogger, not only for your keen insight but for the generous and humble way you presented your views.

I greatly look forward to your essays.

This truly is sad news, but I wish you all the best and look forward to your essays.

Very sad news. I’ve enjoyed your writing for years. All the best!

I teach economics and I regularly use your posts and articles in my classes. Your blog is the first I read every day and your posts the only ones I always read. I’m disappointed that your thoughtful commentary won’t be as readily available. I hope you reconsider.

Even when I’ve disagreed with you, I’ve enjoyed your posts, often learned from them, and even modified some of my own views. This is a great loss, for myself and for the internet.

I came to this blog on a whim and a search back in 2008 as a total economics ignoramus hoping to find a confident expert giving clarity to the madness I was hearing about on the news. Instead, I found a humble, articulate voice explaining why nothing is clear and why we should be wary of confident experts. Since then, I’ve picked up some valuable economic insights by reading this blog, but I think I’ve learned just as much about humility, fallibility, and the importance of keeping an open mind. Thanks for all the great writing, Arnold. You’ve really made a big impact on the way I see the world.

You have been probably my favorite blogger over the years and I have always looked forward to your posts. Your invaluable contributions will be greatly missed.

I have learned a great deal from your writing, and not just about Economics. I’ve learned about logic, good storytelling, and a command of the English language.

You will be sorely missed in my RSS feed reader.

I hope you will elaborate on your ‘folk Marxism’ theme in an upcoming essay. It was a brilliant concept that Locke had been displaced as a default way of thinking, without necessarily understanding or acknowledging the philosophical underpinnings of Marx slipping into ordinary opinions and world views. It is truer now than when you first published it.

Dr. Kling, I will greatly miss your voice on the blogosphere and hope to follow it in your essays. You’ve been my favorite blogger by a long shot and I never failed to catch up on you pithy insights.

My very best wishes to you, and I hope what you take on next is even more rewarding. Thank you for your wisdom.

I too am saddened by this news.

Maybe you can write an essay on why you turned against blogging.

As a reader of blogs I can imagine some reasons:

– pressure to post daily
– the difficulty of fully explaining and developing an idea in few words
– snarky comments that could easily be refuted if you spent the whole day writing replies

I was really sad to see this. Arnold, you’re one of the best on the net.

A great writer, clear thinker, and one of the very best at keeping “his side” honest. More than anything else, I’ve come to value Arnold’s keen understanding of how our brains trick us into thinking we are “righter” and more righteous than our rivals, and his writing was a clinic on how to avoid some of those pitfalls.

Arnold, please start a paid service. I’ll be there.

Sorry to hear this, but understand.

Arnold, you will truly be missed. I appreciate that you were a consistent voice for sanity, clarity and civility in discussing economics. I will anticipate your next essay almost as eagerly as a new season of Doctor Who.

A loss. G’luck in your non-blog endeavors.

Be honest with us… You’re trying out for the St. Louis Cardinals! :’)

Good luck; I am sure we’ll hear from you in other forms in the future.

I wish you all the best and great sucess! Thank you for all the lessons, I will miss your teachings.

Arnold –
I look forward to your essays, which I am sure will set the standard for insight. It has been a pleasure reading you all these years!
– Tim

Your blogging is a shining model of intelligence and civility which will be sorely missed.

I will miss reading you.

Thank you, Dr.Kling, for what has been a fine education over the years.

I keenly look forward to your essays.

Many thanks again.

I was on vacation, so I’m late to comment.

Best of luck to you Arnold. I hope that your quest to bring rationality to the world is best played out through essays.

Dr Kling:

Yours was one of the first blogs to introduce me to the economic way of thinking. I am saddened that your voice will no longer be available.

Thank you for the life changing education. Good luck w/your new direction.