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Econlog is in the top 25 economics blogs, as chosen by the Wall Street Journal. I’ve waited for my co-bloggers to crow about this, since I’m the newcomer (I started in October 2008), but because they haven’t, I will. Of course, we don’t know where the Journal put us in the top 25 because their list is alphabetic. But thanks to Arnold and Bryan, and thanks to the thousands of commenters who have helped us get this far.
READER COMMENTS
hanmeng
Jul 17 2009 at 4:03pm
It’s well deserved, but I didn’t like the
They said the same thing about Megan McArdle, but there were no similar quibbles about reliably left-leaning people like Krugman or DeLong.
Kurbla
Jul 17 2009 at 4:10pm
Damn!
OK, congrats.
David R. Henderson
Jul 17 2009 at 4:48pm
Hanmeng,
You’re right. I guess what I liked is that it was just a quibble. 🙂 I took it as, “Well, I know I’ve got to say this because otherwise my friends at the liberal/left cocktail party tonight will be all over me.” I didn’t like their use of the big “L” libertarian, though. I would bet that none of the three of us is a member of the Libertarian Party.
Kurbla,
Thanks.
Kit
Jul 17 2009 at 5:09pm
“almost always guess the punch line”
Obviously it was meant as a complement: Econlog is consistently logical whereas the left-wing economic sites are irrational and erratic in comparison.
bil. A.
Jul 17 2009 at 6:56pm
Right, right. Clearly the excitement and surprise from not knowing where a blogger is going to come down on an issue is much more important than silly little things like truth and understanding.
Devin Snead
Jul 17 2009 at 10:14pm
Concerning the WSJ’s quibble over the libertarian nature of the blog: The WSJ also released an article yesterday on the economics blogosphere in which they mainly concentrated on Mankiw, Krugman, Thoma, and Tabarrok. They mistaking called Arnold Kling a “conservative”:
The Cupboard Is Bare
Jul 18 2009 at 1:38am
Well, I’m glad somebody crowed about it! 🙂
BTW, it doesn’t matter if Econlog was 1st or 25th. The fact that you were selected from God only knows how many economics blogs that exist on the Internet is a major achievement.
Congratulations to all of you!
David R. Henderson
Jul 18 2009 at 8:52am
Thanks, Cupboard. 🙂
David
Robert
Jul 18 2009 at 9:06am
For me, econlog is a top 4 economics blog along with Krugman, Marginal Revolution, and Economist’s View.
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