tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post6708458546749434572..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Further Decline of Economic Blogging?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-84906035586123406762009-08-14T12:39:52.344-04:002009-08-14T12:39:52.344-04:00We all miss Max.We all miss Max.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-17301437280249756652009-08-14T03:35:32.796-04:002009-08-14T03:35:32.796-04:00One problem at Dani Rodrik's blog is the amoun...One problem at Dani Rodrik's blog is the amount of spam in the comments. Anyway he wrote a <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/dani-rodrik-let-finance-sceptics-take-over/366591/" rel="nofollow"><br />nice article </a>recently (not on his blog)<br /><br />Ostensibly it is about Bernanke's reappointment but he exposes a good deal of finance propaganda.<br />Ironic that he calls for the Anti-Greenspan in an Indian magazine. India did in fact have an Anti Greenspan in charge of its Central Bank (Y.V. Reddy) who successfully moderated a housing bubble and prevented a contagion. NYT had the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/business/20nocera.html" rel="nofollow">story </a><br /><br />Top flight economists blogging certainly has substantial positive externalities. For one thing the hollowness of much of mainstream (Chicago-MIT) macro has been exposed to the non specialist.<br />The educated non-specialist is likely to be more sceptical of economists' arguments in the future.<br /><br />Is blogging good for an economist himself/herself? <br />Mikhail Tal, a former world chess champion regularly used to interact with novices. This, he claimed, forced him to think about the basics - which was a good thing. Richard Feynman had a similar theory on the absence of interaction with novices (students) being responsible for the lack of creative output from the brilliant minds at the IAS (Princeton).<br /><br />This is not an all or none question. It is about what happens on the margin. The previous statement was probably superfluous.Max Jr (not the original one)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-43003201220662390492009-08-13T23:22:40.400-04:002009-08-13T23:22:40.400-04:00I miss Max.I miss Max.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com