Third-Tier Economics Bloggers

Felix Salmon on ranking economics blogs by RSS feed:

In any event, there's no doubt that Marginal Revolution and Freakonomics are, by far, the most popular economics blogs. If you look at their Google Reader subscriber numbers, Marginal Revolution has 72,378 subscribers, while Freakonomics has a few different feeds with 78,462 subscribers in total.

Then there's the second tier. Greg Mankiw has 1,715 Google Reader subscribers; Brad DeLong has 1,895; Krugman has 1,708; Mark Thoma has 1,309; EconoLog has 1,612. (All these can be considered equal for our purposes: I don't think the differences here are significant.)

The third tier would be bloggers like Dani Rodrik (636 Google Reader subscribers), Nouriel Roubini (524), and Michael Shedlock, or Mish (474).

Apparently I'm in the third tier as well, with 560 subscribers. (I thank all 560 of you!) I feel rather honoured to be in the same category as both Rodrik and Roubini - I am a fan of both of them.

(Thanks to Marginal Revolution for the link).