EconLog

EconLog is a group weblog on economics and related topics by Bryan Caplan, David R. Henderson, and Scott Sumner. Its founding blogger, Arnold Kling, stopped blogging for EconLog in August 2012. The blog is hosted and maintained by the Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib) website.

Scope and aims

According to its "About" section:

EconLog aims to educate, entice, and excite readers into thinking about economics in daily analyses. It typically appeals to an international mix of college-educated students, teachers, news media commentators, and bloggers; self-educated or post-graduate thinkers; and those interested in understanding the ever-emerging current economic situation. Readers are invited to comment.^[1]

Bloggers

EconLog has a staff of three people (Lauren Landsburg, Amy Willis, and Russ Roberts), three current regular bloggers (Bryan Caplan, David R. Henderson, and Scott Sumner) and many current and former guest bloggers. All regular bloggers and most guest bloggers have economics Ph.D.s, and the majority tend to have libertarian and generally free-market economic and cultural views. Typical occupations include academia, think tanks, and economic consulting, while institutional affiliations include George Mason University and the Mercatus Center, with the Cato Institute, Independent Institute, and the Hoover Institution also showing up.^[2]

Blogger	Status	Day job	Tenure at EconLog
Arnold Kling	Founder, former regular blogger	economist, adjunct scholar at Cato Institute, affiliated with Mercatus Center	January 2003: Started EconLog as sole blogger. It was a successor to Kling's "Great Questions of Economics" series, which had been started in January 2002.[1] August 2012: Quit regular blogging at EconLog in order to make time for other activities.[3] In November 2012, Kling resumed blogging on his personal blog instead of returning to EconLog.[4]
Bryan Caplan	Regular blogger	economics professor at George Mason University	January 2005: Started blogging at EconLog as a guest blogger.[5] Subsequently became a regular blogger.[1]
David R. Henderson	Regular blogger	research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and is also associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California	October 2008: Started blogging at EconLog as a guest blogger.[1][6][7] Subsequently became a regular blogger.[1]
Scott Sumner	Regular blogger	Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, the Director of the Program on Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and an economist who teaches at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts	January 2014: Joined as a guest blogger.[8][9] Subsequently became a regular blogger.[1]
Garett Jones	Former guest blogger	economist at George Mason University, affiliated with Mercatus Center	September 2012: Joined as a guest blogger.[10][11] April 2013: Finished his blogging stint (last post April 30).[12][13]
Luigi Zingales	Former guest blogger	economist at University of Chicago	October 2012: Joined as a guest blogger.[14] Zingales stops blogging after two months, but his departure was not officially announced.
Art Carden	Former guest blogger	economist at Samford University	April 2013: Joined as a guest blogger.[15][16] December 2013: Finished guest blogging stint (last post December 31).[17][18] June 2014: Rejoined as as guest blogger.[19][20] November 2014: Finished his second stint.[21]
Alberto Mingardi	Current guest blogger	director of the Italian free-market think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni	June 2013: Joined as a guest blogger.[22][23]
Bart Wilson	Former guest blogger	Chair of Economics and Law at Chapman University's Business School	August 2013: Joined as a guest blogger.[24] December 2013: Finished his guest blogging stint (last post December 24, 2013).[25][26]
James Schneider	Former guest blogger	worked in economic consulting and health insurance, novelist on the side	February 2014: Joined as a guest blogger.[27] April 2014: Completed his guest blogging stint.[28][29]
Emily Skarbek	Current guest blogger	economics lecturer at King's College London, Ph.D. from George Mason University	January 2016: Joined as a guest blogger.[30]

Reception

The Wall Street Journal, a US newspaper, listed EconLog in its list of top 25 economics blogs.^[1][31] The New York Times mentioned EconLog in a list of notable economics blogs' reaction to the appointment of Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chairman in 2005.^[32]

In July/August 2013, Onalytica Indexes ranked EconLog 12th in its list of top 200 economics blogs.^[33]

EconLog blog entries have been referenced by many blogs and newspapers such as the New York Times Economix blog,^[34] the Freakonomics blog,^[35][36] Marginal Revolution,^[37][38] and The American.^[39]

EconLog bloggers frequently carry out open conversations with other bloggers including those at Marginal Revolution, Overcoming Bias, and Libertarianism.org.

See also

• EconTalk, a biweekly economics podcast by Russ Roberts, also supported by the Library of Economics and Liberty.

References

1. "About EconLog".
2. "Author Archive". EconLog. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
3. Kling, Arnold (2012-08-24). "My Last Post". EconLog. Retrieved 2012-11-27.
4. Kling, Arnold (2012-11-23). "About this blog". Retrieved 2012-11-27.
5. Kling, Arnold (January 17, 2005). "Guest Blogger". EconLog. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
6. Caplan, Bryan. "EconLog Welcomes Guest Blogger David Henderson". EconLog.
7. Henderson, David. "My First EconLog Blog". EconLog.
8. Henderson, David (December 31, 2013). "Introducing Scott Sumner". EconLog. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
9. Sumner, Scott (December 31, 2013). "Guest blogging at EconLog". The Money Illusion. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
10. Jones, Garett (2012-09-10). "First Things". EconLog. Retrieved 2012-11-27.
11. Caplan, Bryan (2012-09-10). "Welcome Guest Blogger Garett Jones". EconLog. Retrieved 2012-11-27.
12. Jones, Garett (2013-04-22). "Fictional Hillary Clinton and the Real Cost of Political Egalitarianism". EconLog. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
13. Jones, Garett (2013-04-30). "The Hulk's Handshakes and Optimal Monetary Policy". EconLog. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
14. Jones, Garett (2012-10-02). "Welcome to Luigi Zingales". EconLog. Retrieved 2012-11-27.
15. Henderson, David (2013-04-01). "Introducing Art Carden". EconLog. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
16. Carden, Art (2013-04-01). "Why Economics and Liberty?". EconLog. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
17. Henderson, David (December 30, 2013). "Farewell, Art Carden!". EconLog. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
18. Carden, Art (December 31, 2013). "Why I Fight Write". EconLog. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
19. Henderson, David (June 1, 2014). "Welcome Back, Carden". EconLog. Retrieved June 4, 2014.
20. Carden, Art (June 2, 2014). "It's Great to Be Back With One of My Favorite Blogs!". EconLog. Retrieved June 4, 2014.
21. Carden, Art (November 21, 2014). "EconLog Guest Stint #2 Ends This Month: Requests?". EconLog. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
22. Willis, Amy (2013-05-31). "Introducing Alberto Mingardi". EconLog. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
23. Mingardi, Alberto (2013-06-01). "Does liberty require polymaths? (first post)". Retrieved 2013-06-26.
24. Willis, Amy (2013-08-23). "Introducing Bart Wilson". EconLog. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
25. Wilson, Bart (December 24, 2013). "A Literary Theoretical Treatment of Prices". EconLog. Retrieved February 6, 2014.
26. Caplan, Bryan (December 24, 2013). "Farewell to Bart Wilson, For Now". EconLog. Retrieved February 6, 2014.
27. Caplan, Bryan (February 3, 2014). "Meet James Schneider". EconLog. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
28. "Where Does All the Booze Go?". EconLog. April 30, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
29. Henderson, David (April 29, 2014). "Farewell, James Schneider". Retrieved May 1, 2014.
30. Henderson, David (January 3, 2016). "Introducing Emily Skarbek". EconLog. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
31. "Top 25 Economics Blogs: The Wall Street Journal's economics bureau sifted through the sea of economics blogs and determined the top 25, with five honorable mentions. (Listed in alphabetical order.)". Retrieved January 22, 2014.
32. Zeller, Tom (2005-10-24). "Blogosphere's Response to Nomination Largely Positive". The New York Times.
33. Moldovan, Andreaa (2013-07-31). "Top 200 Influential Economics Blogs – Aug 2013". Onalytica Indexes. Retrieved 2013-08-22.
34. Rampell, Catherine (2008-11-13). "More on the Deregulation Debate: Herbert Hoover Edition". The Economix Blog, The New York Times.
35. "The Rich vs Poor Debate: Are Kids Normal or Inferior Goods?". Freakonomics.
36. Caplan, Bryan (2011-04-21). "The Nurture of Gretchen Carlson: A Guest Post by Bryan Caplan". Retrieved 2013-06-26.
37. Cowen, Tyler. "More on the Returns to Education". Marginal Revolution.
38. Cowen, Tyler. "How Deserving Are The Poor?". Marginal Revolution.
39. "The American Scene". The American.

External links

• EconLog main page