Category: Weblogs

  • Actually, it is 101. Somehow in my self-absorption I missed that we reached our 100th month of blogging at the end of September 2013 (I think I've "counted" [i.e., copied the archives list of months into MS Excel and took a look at the number of rows] correctly).  Dang, I'm getting old.

  • Kate Bahn ("a doctoral student in economics at the New School for Social Research and a writer and co-editor at LadyEconomist.com) in the Chronicle: So the problem is really twofold: Women have been discouraged and excluded, and those who make an impact anyway have had their contributions discredited. Add these together, and economics has a…

  • In response to the overwhelming grassroots interest we've received we have in being nominated for a Nobel Prize in honor of our contribution to the promulgation of environmental economics in the blogosphere, I've done some research (i.e. I Googled 'Nobel Prize in Economic Scence nomination'–I would've Google 'Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory…

  • I've just discovered that we have a mobile version at the knowledge base. Leave me a snarky comment if I should have known this years ago. Our mobile URL is: http://www.env-econ.net/.m/ You can click on the link to see what it looks like. It is not so pretty but it might help with readability. Should…

  • Environmental Economics (www.env-econ.net) is a blog: I got a bang out of Forrest Wickman’s Slate article a couple of weeks ago decrying the trend of calling a blog post or blog entry a “blog.” Haven’t noticed the trend? You will; it’s a thing. Wickman points out that going along with this can make you sound…

  • ingmar schumacher: According to some, the important and depressing graph missing is number 32 – beer prices across Europe on the rise. That is, unless you live in Ireland, of course, then, based on chart 32, life has been looking increasingly optimistic since 2010. Chart 32 via ingmarschumacher.wordpress.com I'll be following via email since I…

  • Or something else? … DeLong, Krugman, Econbrowser, Calculated Risk, Free Exchange, Environmental Economics, and a few more … via economistsview.typepad.com Actually, it is something else. Here is what Mark Thoma said about these blogs: Some of the RSS feeds in the sidebar stopped working for mysterious reasons … But still, at least we were mentioned…

  • Ed Barbier is one of the bloggers at the Triple Crisis blog. Here is some stuff from the about page: The world is experiencing three simultaneous crises in finance, development, and the environment.  A number of economists are questioning the mainstream narratives and analyses of these crises.  Some of us have joined to create the…

  • Blogging is a pain. Every day it is the same old thing … picture of the day, daily demand and suppy, talk about my kids and what I've been eating, make fun of Tim. I think that the blog formerly known as Green, Inc has a great plan. Shut down and scatter the topic to…

  • Even a name change couldn't save the blog formerly known as Green, Inc (at least I can finally let go of my irritation at the name change): The Times is discontinuing the Green blog, which was created  to track environmental and energy news and to foster lively discussion of developments in both areas. This change will…