Thursday, March 13, 2003

BlogEc

In honor of the traditional economic naming convention that gives us website names such as JokEc and WoPEc, I hereby call for the creation of BlogEc. BlogEc could be the one-stop shopping center for all economics-related web logs. The AEA's Resources for Economists on the Internet has a section devoted to weblogs, RFE: Weblogs and Commentaries, but the selection is meager.

Brad DeLong's blog, Semi-Daily Journal, is probably the best bet out of the RFE's slim pickings. A bit too full of long quotes from other sources, the ideas are interesting and the entries are well-written, meaning that the professor has overcome two of the hurdles that economists find daunting.