My friend, former colleague, and one-time co-author Shanta Devarajan, who is currently chief economist for South Asia at the World Bank, has started his own blog. It is called "End Poverty in South Asia." And Paul Krugman has a new blog too.
I don't know about you, and I should not be the one to complain in view of my late entry into this game, but it does begin to feel awfully crowded in here...
Here is a question: Who is the economist you would most want to see blogging? I promise to relay the request personally to the winner of the contest.
From Berkeley: George Akerlof, Pranab Bardhan and Raj Chetty.
Posted by: Abi | September 19, 2007 at 07:22 AM
Paul Romer, perhaps? Akerlof is a good choice, too. I think Joan Robinson would have been the best econ blogger ever, though.
Posted by: Andrew John | September 19, 2007 at 07:34 AM
Olivier Blanchard.
Posted by: Arthur Goldhammer | September 19, 2007 at 07:44 AM
Yes, I would like to see George Akerlof/Janet Yellen blog..I think Stiglitz would be interesting..Rogoff or Frankel
Notice the strong Berkeley influence : ) (yes Rogoff and Frankel were at Berkeley for a bit)
Posted by: gabriel | September 19, 2007 at 08:11 AM
Abhijit Banerji from MIT
Posted by: Mac | September 19, 2007 at 08:18 AM
Assar Lindbeck from stockholm university, Sweden.
Posted by: David | September 19, 2007 at 08:33 AM
Olivier Blanchard writes from times to times on Telos-eu (on what can be considered as Telos's blog), but it's very irregular, and it's in french.
Here's his page linking to the articles he wrote for them :
http://www.telos-eu.com/user/23
Posted by: jmdesp | September 19, 2007 at 08:36 AM
Dan Hamermesh!
Wait, does an econometrician count?
Posted by: Hafiz | September 19, 2007 at 08:52 AM
Daron Acemoglu from MIT.
Posted by: Amine | September 19, 2007 at 08:56 AM
Keynes of course...if that's not feasible...Stiglitz then...
Posted by: Mike | September 19, 2007 at 09:04 AM
Joseph Stiglitz
Devraj Roy
Posted by: Chandan | September 19, 2007 at 09:19 AM
Joseph Stiglitz and Joel Mokyr
Posted by: Ivo Staub | September 19, 2007 at 09:21 AM
Joseph Stiglitz and Debraj Ray
Posted by: Chandan | September 19, 2007 at 09:38 AM
You'd think that Stigliz' views aren't already well-known, based on these comments.
My choice for an original and outside-the-mainstream blogger would be UNLV's Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Posted by: chris | September 19, 2007 at 09:50 AM
Stiglitz, Barry Eichengreen, Acemoglu.
Posted by: Manuel | September 19, 2007 at 09:50 AM
acemoglu for sure
Posted by: tt | September 19, 2007 at 09:59 AM
how about amartya sen?
Posted by: denisse | September 19, 2007 at 10:06 AM
Blanchard, Sen, Stiglitz.
Posted by: Paolo | September 19, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Amartya Sen, for sure.
And also Ricardo J. Caballero.
Posted by: Dk | September 19, 2007 at 10:46 AM
definitely acemoglu.
Posted by: marshall | September 19, 2007 at 11:14 AM
I'd like to see the Columbia triumvirate have their own blog where Stiglitz, Sachs and Bhagwati jointly run it and debate each other.
Posted by: Ben | September 19, 2007 at 11:28 AM
acemoglu
Posted by: jb | September 19, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Stiglitz or Ben's triumvirate.
Posted by: eriks | September 19, 2007 at 12:20 PM
krugman.
my wish just came true :)
Posted by: vassilis | September 19, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Robert Barro, I have never laughed so much than when he used to write for Business Week, hilarious stuff, what a star.
Posted by: betternotsignthisone | September 19, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Ben Bernanke! Fed-speak updates everyday! Markets would love it.
Posted by: Alex | September 19, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Dani - This is a popularity contest or not?
- Baghwati
- Krugman
- Amartya Sen
-Assar Lindbeck
-Gunnar Myrdal/JKGalbraith!
Posted by: hari | September 19, 2007 at 12:43 PM
Joseph Stiglitz
Posted by: Alan | September 19, 2007 at 01:00 PM
ROMER
Posted by: Mava | September 19, 2007 at 01:03 PM
Joseph Stiglitz
Posted by: Dawson Lemus | September 19, 2007 at 01:30 PM
I'll go with Sen.
Posted by: Steven Taylor | September 19, 2007 at 02:02 PM
Sen
Bhagwati
Posted by: filio | September 19, 2007 at 02:04 PM
Robert Lucas
Posted by: pierre | September 19, 2007 at 02:06 PM
Dr. Inigo Macias de Barcelona
Posted by: Liz Drake | September 19, 2007 at 02:10 PM
Dr. Inigo Macias de Barcelona
Posted by: Liz Drake | September 19, 2007 at 02:10 PM
Aly Ercelawn
Stiglitz
Posted by: Ali Sohail (pakistan) | September 19, 2007 at 02:11 PM
Aly Ercelawn (pakistan)
Posted by: Ali Sohail (pakistan) | September 19, 2007 at 02:13 PM
Roger Garrison
Garrison has got to be considered the best macroeconomist working today.
Posted by: prestopundit | September 19, 2007 at 02:22 PM
Giovanni Dosi.
Posted by: van | September 19, 2007 at 02:27 PM
Daron Acemoglu.
I read many of his papers, I just bought his book On the Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, and I think he is the one who could give us the best insight on everyday things and on Research, given his qualifications on Labor Economics, Political Science, etc.
Definitively Acemoglu.
Posted by: alex kossoy | September 19, 2007 at 02:29 PM
More choices:
Philip Mirowski
Alex Rosenberg
Bruce Caldwell
An economist who knows only economics usually isn't a very good economist -- these guys know not only lots besides economics, they also know more about economics than most economists.
Posted by: prestopundit | September 19, 2007 at 02:29 PM
A.K. Sen
A. Banerjee
Posted by: jml | September 19, 2007 at 02:29 PM
Maynard Keynes, of course. But don't feel obliged to go to where he is to ask him personally. You're allowed to pass the word through a medium.
Posted by: rkillings | September 19, 2007 at 02:36 PM
Maynard Keynes, of course. But don't feel obliged to go to where he is to ask him personally. You're allowed to pass the word through a medium.
Posted by: rkillings | September 19, 2007 at 02:36 PM
Tom Schelling
Posted by: Jim | September 19, 2007 at 02:55 PM
Tom Schelling
Posted by: Jim | September 19, 2007 at 02:55 PM
Acemoglu or Akerlof.
Posted by: pm | September 19, 2007 at 03:10 PM
Jordi Galí, Olivier Blanchard, José De Gregorio, Stanley Fischer, Andrés Velasco, Ricardo Haussman,...
Posted by: Alejandro | September 19, 2007 at 03:14 PM
Daron Acemoglu
Andrei Shleifer
Posted by: conundrum | September 19, 2007 at 03:42 PM
Stanley Fischer, Akerlof/Yellen, Acemoglu, Dasgupta
Econometricians: PCB Phillips, David Hendry
Posted by: jb | September 19, 2007 at 03:46 PM
Easterly
Posted by: Lodger | September 19, 2007 at 04:18 PM
Easterly
Posted by: Lodger | September 19, 2007 at 04:19 PM
Barro
Bernanke
Posted by: Warren | September 19, 2007 at 04:23 PM
How about a top UK economist- Andrew Oswald
Posted by: Charlie Davis | September 19, 2007 at 04:37 PM
Joint: Daron Acemoglu / Andrei Shleifer
Joint: William Nordhaus
Joint: George Akerlof/Robert Shiller
Joint: Barry Nalebuff/Ian Ayres
Joint: John E. Roemer/Amartya Sen
Posted by: Nene | September 19, 2007 at 04:37 PM
Joint: William Nordhaus / Parta Dasgupta/Martin L. Weitzman
Posted by: Nene | September 19, 2007 at 04:40 PM
Bill Easterly please!!!!!!!!
As a bonus...
Daron Acemoglu
Posted by: Cho | September 19, 2007 at 05:16 PM
Actually Daron as an alternative choice, not as bonus...
you didn't say this was one man one vote!!
Posted by: Cho | September 19, 2007 at 05:18 PM
Tony Venables
Posted by: other Jim | September 19, 2007 at 05:19 PM
Andrés Velasco
Posted by: F. K.-C. | September 19, 2007 at 06:17 PM
Economists can't write, with the great exception of Dierdre McCloskey. I vote McCloskey. Do any other economists even know who she IS?
Posted by: Bob | September 19, 2007 at 06:23 PM
joseph stiglitz
Posted by: sami atallah | September 19, 2007 at 07:10 PM
Daron Acemoglu, Joseph Stiglitz and I believe that Xavier Sala-i-Martin would be a perfect blogger.
Posted by: David | September 19, 2007 at 07:22 PM
Yes, Olivier Blanchard would be a big thing!
What about Guillermo Calvo? Would be interesting, too.
Posted by: manfred | September 19, 2007 at 10:09 PM
Acemoglu
Posted by: Will | September 19, 2007 at 10:53 PM
Not in any order
1. Acemoglu (what a researcher)
2. Mishkin
3. Bernanke (his speeches are simply awesome)
4. Zingales & Rajan (for understanding finance better)
5. Paul Romer
6. Akerlof (for his variety)
7. Kahnemann/Thaler (for making economics interesting)
8. Shleifer is a must(you seldom come across an economist as diverse as this guy)
Posted by: Amol Agrawal | September 19, 2007 at 11:23 PM
Abert O. Hirschmann
Posted by: Aqdas Afzal (Pakistan) | September 19, 2007 at 11:40 PM
Trying Again --
ALBERT O. HIRSCHMANN
Posted by: Aqdas Afzal (Pakistan) | September 19, 2007 at 11:42 PM
Dani, you are all we could ever ask for! ;-)
But, if I HAD to choose, I would cast my vote for Easterly or De Soto.
Posted by: Justin Rietz | September 19, 2007 at 11:57 PM
A few I would subscribe to:
The James Heckman blog
The Samuel Bowles blog
The Acemoglu Robinson blog
A good economic history blog
Posted by: 2cents | September 20, 2007 at 12:30 AM
Stiglitz, Easterly vs Sachs, Bhagwati vs Banerjee, Jamie Galbraith
Posted by: Matt Zeitlin | September 20, 2007 at 12:33 AM
Acemoglu, he always has interesting things to say
Posted by: Dani | September 20, 2007 at 01:20 AM
Sen of course. I'd be a better person reading him on a near daily basis.
Also Esther Duflo from MIT.
Posted by: stefanotti | September 20, 2007 at 01:39 AM
I'd love to get the Krugman of "The Accidental Theorist", when he was a bit less predictable...
Posted by: martin | September 20, 2007 at 03:00 AM
Stiglitz
Posted by: Pedro Braz Teixeira | September 20, 2007 at 04:11 AM
Acemoglu or Eichengreen
Posted by: Joe | September 20, 2007 at 05:43 AM
Amartya Sen
Posted by: kalle | September 20, 2007 at 06:29 AM
Joseph Stiglitz for sure
Posted by: Said Salih KAYMAKCI | September 20, 2007 at 07:09 AM
Stiglitz
Posted by: Remi | September 20, 2007 at 07:37 AM
nosferatu
Posted by: paine | September 20, 2007 at 07:42 AM
edward glaeser
douglass north
assar lindbeck
glenn loury
Posted by: mark | September 20, 2007 at 09:03 AM
So, a lot of my best picks were taken: Acemoglu, David Romer, Easterly, Ed Glaeser, etc.
How about Caroline Hoxby or Martin Feldstein or John V.C. Nye?
Posted by: mig | September 20, 2007 at 09:29 AM
Yeah, Daron Acemoglu would be great
Posted by: Guccio | September 20, 2007 at 10:17 AM
Stiglitz and Akerlof.
Posted by: Na Prática a Teoria é Outra | September 20, 2007 at 10:35 AM
Will be nice to have:
Stiglitz
James K Galbraith
Lawrence Summers
Greenspan
Rodrik n Krugman would certainly have been on the list had they not been blogging.
Posted by: ls | September 20, 2007 at 10:51 AM
John DiNardo
Posted by: ogre | September 20, 2007 at 12:07 PM
the gold standard: joseph stiglitz
Posted by: doug | September 21, 2007 at 01:40 AM
yeah barro would be good for a laugh -- i've never laughed so much when i've read some of his academic papers either...
Posted by: doug | September 21, 2007 at 01:42 AM
Sorry to be late to propose Kemal Dervis.
Posted by: Etienne Calame | September 21, 2007 at 08:49 AM
Your new colleague at KSG, Lant Pritchett, about whom as you know you wrote, "Lant is a terrific economist--not just smart, but with incredible knowledge of the real world and common sense." That sounds like a perfect blogger.
Posted by: ss | September 22, 2007 at 02:27 PM
this is late, but i just thought i'd put in my two cents: i'd love to see a blog by keith griffin and/or aziz ur rahman khan.
jacqueline geoghegan would be great too.
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