{"id":3810,"date":"2013-03-18T07:22:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.ups.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2013-03-19T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T16:10:48","slug":"useful-economics-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/useful-economics-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Economics Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/03\/EconPennies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3826\" alt=\"EconPennies\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/03\/EconPennies-300x225.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/03\/EconPennies-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/03\/EconPennies.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a>Interested in reading about current events from an economic perspective?<\/p>\n<p>Concise and current, blogs are a great resource for keeping up with current events and conversations for scholars, laypeople, and those in between. Blog entries can run the gamut from serious to whimsical, but their very nature allows a uniquely unmediated opportunity for writers to communicate with their audience.<\/p>\n<p>While they\u2019re no replacement for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/collins-memorial-library\/research-gateway\/databases-a-to-z\/\">subscription databases<\/a> when it comes to serious research, blogs are a fertile source for still developing ideas and research.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a select list of economics blogs that you can bookmark, or add to your RSS feeds (<a href=\"http:\/\/googlereader.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/powering-down-google-reader.html\">RIP Google Reader<\/a>). Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/faculty-pages\/mwarning\">Prof. Matt Warning<\/a> for helping to compile this list.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/blog\/\">The Freakonomics blog <\/a><br \/>\nStephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner are the authors of the popular book \u201cFreakonomics\u201d and maintain a fascinating blog here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution <\/a><br \/>\nMarginal Revolution is a blog written by Tyler Cowen and Alexander Tabarrok, two economists at George Mason University.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/\">Planet Money <\/a><br \/>\nBlog for NPR podcast, Planet Money<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Conscience of a Liberal <\/a><br \/>\nBlog by Paul Krugman of the New York Times<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">The NY Times Economix blog <\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;From the business staff of The New York Times, the Economix blog interprets the economy and helps you understand our world&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/\">The Economist blog <\/a><br \/>\nCollection of blogs covering a variety of topics from the writers of the Economist<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/comment\/blogs\">Financial Times blog <\/a><br \/>\nLatest blogs and posts from the influential British financial daily newspaper.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/\">Wall Street Journal blog <\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Real-time news and analysis from the Journal&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.econtalk.org\/\">Econlib <\/a><br \/>\nThe Library of Economics and Liberty is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a unique combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/\">Cafe Hayek<\/a><br \/>\nAuthored by Russ Roberts of Stanford and Donald Bordreaux of George Mason University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>By Ben Tucker, Business, Economics and Social Sciences Librarian<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in reading about current events from an economic perspective? Concise and current, blogs are a great resource for keeping up with current events and conversations for scholars, laypeople, and those in between. Blog entries can run the gamut from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/useful-economics-blogs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}