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Mike's Economics Blog

By Mike Moffatt, About.com Guide to Economics since 2002

We're #29!

Monday August 20, 2007
The blog on economics.about.com, that is - according to rankings compiled by Aaron Schiff. The rankings are based on incoming links from other blogs. I'm surprised this blog ranked as well as it does - the vast majority of visitors to this site come through Google searches and never find the blog.

Anyhow, there's some terrific sites in the Top 30 (of 118):
  1. Freakonomics
  2. Marginal Revolution
  3. Greg Mankiw's Blog
  4. The Big Picture
  5. The Becker-Posner Blog
  6. Economist's View
  7. Asymmetrical Information
  8. Brad DeLong
  9. EconLog
  10. Cafe Hayek
  11. Adam Smith Institute
  12. Dani Rodrik
  13. TaxProf Blog
  14. Econbrowser
  15. Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
  16. Angry Bear
  17. The Indian Economy Blog
  18. Environmental Economics
  19. Free Exchange
  20. Ideas (David Friedman)
  21. New Economist
  22. Mahalanobis
  23. Mises Economics Blog
  24. Knowledge Problems
  25. macroblog
  26. RGE - Brad Setser's Blog
  27. Organizations and Markets
  28. The Sports Economist
  29. Economics at About.com
  30. Division of Labor
And four more of my favorites which are not in the Top 30:

Comments

August 20, 2007 at 12:27 pm
(1) Gabriel says:

I suspect that if this had been done 4-5 months ago, we would both rank higher.

Recently, we’ve witnesses some pretty serious bellow-trend blogging :-) and, to make thing worse, the little blogging that did happen was concentrated around the entries of the leading pack.

August 20, 2007 at 9:21 pm
(2) Aaron Schiff says:

Hi Mike, thanks for the comments about my ranking. I’ve added Reviving Economics and Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, which come in at #99 and #65 respectively.

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